[mythtv] 0.28 Release Schedule

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 13:43:18 UTC 2016


On 10 January 2016 at 22:01, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
> It's difficult to criticise a dev who wants to work on these things but I
> have to agree this backwards compatible stuff is getting a little out of
> hand. If we had the resources to maintain and test each and every version
> things would be different but it's hard enough for me to test clean master
> and 0.27-fixes without adding does it still work with Qt4 and Qt5 and what
> about that 5 year old version someone is still using!
>
> We need to be making Myth easier to support not harder. Adding hack on top
> of hack to keep old versions happy is not the way to go.
>
> This would be time better spent elsewhere like making Myth easier to setup
> and upgrade so more users would likely upgrade sooner and wouldn't need to
> keep these old versions running IMHO.


IMHO 12.04 needs to die, and it needs to die quick.

Of all distributions Firefox runs on, getting around 12.04 bugs and
obsolete code has been the worse thing I've had to work on at Mozilla.
They ship with an obsolete LibAV 8, which is ultra buggy. The amount
of workaround we had to put in place just to keep 12.04 users happy is
quickly getting out of hand


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