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Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number t
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Daniel Carosone |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0 |
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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:47:33 +1000 |
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:07:13PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > I don't see why an operating system choice (let alone which variant of
> > an operating system, or which variant of the variant) by an end user
> > matters.
>
> If end-users can do "apt-get install monotone" (or equivalent), that's a
> rather lower barrier than having to go find a more recent version on our
> downloads page, and is one less reason for projects to avoid us.
Of course, no doubt or dispute. Why must they get an (unreasonably)
old monotone as a result? If they did, wouldn't their displeasure
best be expressed at whoever is (not) maintaining their equivalent of
apt-get?
> I'm not thinking about maintainers at all here, I'm wondering if
> requiring extra setup by whatever fraction of other projects' developers
> are running a stable distro release might scare projects away. Maybe
> that's a completely bogus concern, though.
Understood, but how long is reasonable for the maintainers to catch up
to applications on that release?
--
Dan.
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Tero Koskinen, 2009/08/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, hendrik, 2009/08/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Philipp Gröschler, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, hendrik, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, hendrik, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Daniel Carosone, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/26
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0,
Daniel Carosone <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Zack Weinberg, 2009/08/25
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/26
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Zack Weinberg, 2009/08/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Markus Wanner, 2009/08/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Zack Weinberg, 2009/08/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Markus Wanner, 2009/08/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Ludovic Brenta, 2009/08/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0, Timothy Brownawell, 2009/08/29