That had not occured to me :) I think this is a very good compromise.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:54 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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