On 04/10/2014 04:54 PM, Bill Y. wrote: > IMO telling a person they should switch to Linux because it is Free > has not bearing on the issue. There are a plethora of reasons why an > individual may want to stick with XP despite it's EOL this past > Tuesday, and while I agree they are taking security risks the longer > they use it, I've been to places that used Windows 2000 for years past > it's EOL because Linux was not an option. To me LMMS should not judge > an OS as the reason to not fix a bug. To me XP bug support should only > stop if a core component of LMMS simply can not work with XP with out > doing a major overhaul to the code.
People are entirely free to use whatever OS they want... including Windows 95, OS/2 or C64-BASIC. I'm not telling anyone to switch to anything, they're entirely free to use what they want. But that doesn't mean we're obligated to support those operating systems, or fix bugs that only affect those systems. If Microsoft no longer supports XP, why should we? We have limited resources, and the more we have to support and fix bugs for dead systems, the less time and resources we have to improve and develop new features for LMMS. Again, this is mostly academic speculation, as it's not all that likely that we're going to run into any issues very soon that prevent us from supporting XP. (Although in the long term, that becomes increasingly more likely.) But personally, if I tomorrow encounter a bug that only affects XP, a bug that is non-existent on other platforms and only caused by particularities of XP, I'm not going to put any effort towards fixing it. I don't think it's a relevant OS any longer, just like Windows 95 isn't relevant, or Fedora 6, or Ubuntu 9.04. LMMS is open source and if there are people running those systems, they can go through the trouble of patching LMMS to run on them themselves and share their efforts with others using those systems. It's simply not realistic to expect a project with very limited manpower to cater to users of a dead OS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
