The best way to deal with EOL platforms that I've seen is "best effort": do not guarantee continued operability but accept patches that fix
breakages -- as long as they don't add maintenance burden beyond a comfortable level.
So if there's a person willing to backport changes (and test them themselves since we're not testing on that old platform), I don't see a
problem.
On 10.12.2020 0:28, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:15 PM Jakub Stasiak <ja...@stasiak.at
<mailto:ja...@stasiak.at>> wrote:
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a group of people that won’t ever
upgrade to 10.15+ for variety of reasons (including loss of
32-bit application support) so there’s also that.
In my experience Apple hardware is very reliable and way outlives the OS updates. Even if an OS updates is still available, the newer OS
often needs more memory, which can be a problem (most Apple hardware is hard to add memory to). What are people supposed to do? Just throw
away their expensive computer?
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