[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-build] Support Fedora 16

[Simon Schampijer]

On 07/12/2012 10:48 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
>
> thanks for your patch.
>
> I prefer to not support old distributions in sugar-build, to reduce
> the maintenance cost. It appears to just work right now but that
> might change during the development cycle or when we make changes to
> sugar-build itself (we will have to add master gtk soon for the shell
> port, for example) and ensuring everything works as expected on many
> distributions is very time consuming. I'd also have to setup two other
> buildbot slaves for F16 and those are also quite expensive to
> maintain. And when things will start breaking we would probably have
> to add special cases to check-system, build certain stuff only on
> certain distro, which will increase complexity and bring us back to
> the sugar-jhbuild situation...
>
> So, all in all, I prefer to be absolutely certain stuff works out of
> the box for everyone on the latest distribution, at a reasonable
> maintenance cost, rather than trying to support everything and failing
> to do so reliably. I understand it might be annoying for some users to
> have to upgrade to F17, but I think it's reasonable to accept that
> limitation in exchange for reliability.
>
> If in the future sugar development stops depending on the very cutting
> edge of the GNOME stuff I think it might be possible to reasses this
> decision, but unfortunately right now I don't see it coming very soon.

I absolutely agree here. Everything comes at a cost. If you want to do 
edge development you have to be on the edge (hence F17 upwards). I would 
not loose time on supporting F16.

Regards,
    Simon