On 10 April 2014 21:56, Vesa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
For comparison, LibreOffice only supports Mac OS X 10.5 because one guy is bothering to try to keep it going. So for XP fans, the main thing is for them to test daily builds, flag any that don't work and - and this will be needed to sustain this - fix the bug. - d. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
