Am 13.11.2013 00:48, schrieb Lex Trotman:
Because many distros are more than 3 years old and still supported. Geany has users (and developers) in commercial and academic environments which will often be constrained to older (but still supported) versions of Red Hat, Scientific Linux, Suse etc.
Yes.
Its fine for hobbyists to want to play with the latest, we only have one PC to change over, but institutions often have hundreds or thousands and have all sorts of specific software to ensure still works when they upgrade.
As an admin inside a smaller environment (<500 clients) its hard enough to get Windows XP out. We even got versions < XP SP3 running :(
Having this in mind for Geany: We have to check clearly, what we want to support. As already mentioned we don't have a good ruleset for this at the moment.
Cheers, Frank