2010/5/15 Krisztián Nagy <nkrisztia...@gmail.com>: > "Does anyone use a Linux distribution that is no longer supported by it's > maker? > If so why?" > There was a discussion in the thread about the usage of old releases, see it > there. > I personally know people who use for example old ubuntu because their > hardware is not supported (I know this normally does not happen but it still > does in some cases) or too slow with the newer releases. I gues there can be > more reasons. > The point I was trying to make was that we should know who and on which > system uses lazarus so such decisions could be made. > I do not have that information. If there is some source from where you know > that no one uses lazarus on releases with old gtk just show it and that > should solve this issue. :) > However, I agree that in general it is a viable policy to align the required > version to the officially supported main distros (and of course take > advantage of all of it's features). But I think at this point we do not know > if the general case applies to lazarus or our user base is different and we > should follow a different path (like being compatible with old systems). > I hope it is clear now. > Krisztián > --
For .deb packages, Debian Stable must be used as a reference distro. Gustavo > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus