I think Toby has to take this decision.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Vesa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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