On 13-04-20 06:02 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 21 April 2013 10:56, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
On 13-04-20 05:48 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
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I definitively agree that there's someone/a few people out there, in this
strange self-imposed situation that are mentioned above, but I'd bet good money it's a such a small minority of Geany's users, possibly even less than 1%, to be worth bending over backwards for.
The real problem is none of us knows how many actual users there are in any particular system configuration. I am only going on my experience, which as a contractor at least includes a spread of companies.
In the past its always been me introducing Geany, but recently I have been pleasantly surprised to find a few customers already using it on Red Hat.
Hence my concern to keep support for at least the Red Hat version that is still in primary support.
But if they're your customers, given your deep familiarity with Geany's source and your likely influence on installed versions of it, could you not backport critical fixes and improvements of which there are very few or run a release closer to the year in which their corporate OS vendor offers support up to for other packages?
Well as I said, some have already installed it before I came along, that means that there are more that have Geany and are not my customers. They are the ones I'm talking about supporting.
But really, they have Geany latest, can't install new software, have a really old GTK+ version, need features from bleeding edge Geany and can't get you to update them from source or do it themselves?
This sounds like either a completely fictitious or insignificant group of users to me. If they can't make due with older Geany versions, can't update their GTK+ environment, but *can* install Geany from sources, I'd say they're either schizophrenic, lazy, liars or in the 0.001% of total users. In all cases, IMO, they aren't worth serving for free on my buck.
Cheers, Matthew Brush