On May 31, 2012, at 14:44, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt > <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Yes, it doesn't seem that bad today. I'm just pointing out that there >>> will very likely be a large user base continuing to run some version >>> of 1.6.x for 5 to 10 years in the future. >> >> That's fine, if you don't mind running old software its developers will not >> support anymore. Subversion 1.6.x will become unsupported when Subversion >> 1.8.0 is released. > > But, that puts it at odds with running it on a stable Linux distribution...
Subversion has followed this policy for years. It's mentioned at the bottom of every release notes document.
