On 13-04-20 06:12 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 13-04-20 06:02 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 21 April 2013 10:56, Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> wrote:
On 13-04-20 05:48 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
[...]
I definitively agree that there's someone/a few people out there,
in this
strange self-imposed situation that are mentioned above, but I'd
bet good
money it's a such a small minority of Geany's users, possibly even
less
than 1%, to be worth bending over backwards for.
The real problem is none of us knows how many actual users there are in
any
particular system configuration. I am only going on my experience,
which
as a contractor at least includes a spread of companies.
In the past its always been me introducing Geany, but recently I
have been
pleasantly surprised to find a few customers already using it on Red
Hat.
Hence my concern to keep support for at least the Red Hat version
that is
still in primary support.
But if they're your customers, given your deep familiarity with Geany's
source and your likely influence on installed versions of it, could
you not
backport critical fixes and improvements of which there are very few
or run
a release closer to the year in which their corporate OS vendor offers
support up to for other packages?
Well as I said, some have already installed it before I came along, that
means that there are more that have Geany and are not my customers. They
are the ones I'm talking about supporting.
But really, they have Geany latest, can't install new software, have a
really old GTK+ version, need features from bleeding edge Geany and
can't get you to update them from source or do it themselves?
This sounds like either a completely fictitious or insignificant group
of users to me. If they can't make due with older Geany versions, can't
update their GTK+ environment, but *can* install Geany from sources, I'd
say they're either schizophrenic, lazy, liars or in the 0.001% of total
users. In all cases, IMO, they aren't worth serving for free on my buck.
Just to be clear, I'm fine with hacking on behalf of the other 99.9..%
of users for free on my buck, I just hate wasting hack-time for
pointless historical nonsense that affects 0.0n% of legacy users.
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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