15 Feb
2019
15 Feb
'19
8:03 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:22:21AM +0100, Max wrote:
That would match general expectations set by other free software projects like GTK for example - nobody expects application written for GTK2.x to work effortlessly with GTK3.y
Yes, but such a compatibility break always brings a lot of overhead and a split of the user base, as we have seen with the osmo-nitb split. The community is infinitely slow in taking on the newer incompatible version.
The aim should be to remain compatible.
~N