On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote:
> > I could be wrong (that's one of my defining strength - I am wrong a lot). > But here's my analysis: > > About 2/3 of our users are supported with one single binary, the Windows > installer. > Another 20% of our users are supported by one single binary, the Mac DMG > (we had times had a second DMG for older versions, but given that they > tended to get < 100 users, I have not spend much effort on them). > The remaining roughly 15% of our users today require us to build about 30 > different binary packages which take up a significant amount of my time > whenever we introduce a new dependency, need a feature from a newer version > of a library, or some other way break things. At this point I have managed > to bring down the number of build configuration systems to 3 to create the > vast majority of those binary packages: the Ubuntu/Launchpad system, the > openSUSE/Fedora/OBS system, plus AppImage. Additionally, community members > are maintaining always current and very solid binary packages for Arch and > Gentoo (I believe). Considering this maybe you can understand my reluctance > better. > Here is a quick run-down from Launchpad for the latest release. 4.7.5-1~zesty (56) - 17.04 zesty (56) amd64 (53) i386 (3) 4.7.5-1~xenial (505) - 16.04 LTS xenial (505) amd64 (472) i386 (33) 4.7.5-1~artful (123) - 17.10 artful (123) amd64 (120) i386 (3) BTW Out of curiosity, how many users you think we have in total? miika
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