On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:08 AM, Ben Fowler wrote:

Jon, I'm sorry that I missed this when you originally posted in this

thread, you are of course 100% correct, unfortunately so is every

other comment: I don't see a single path forward that will work for

everyone, and we are probably left with Bryce's original proposal that

the time has come to move on regardless of 'pain'.


Unfortunately this "pain" in this instance is not just a minor scratch, but the amputation of a few major limbs.

:-)

We're at 2.4 now. By jumping to 2.8 and past 2.6 we lose the support that has allowed me to develop on the Mac.

The equivalent would be to that of being on Ubuntu or Debian and dropping all use of the stock tools like apt, dpkg, etc., and pulling down source tarballs for everything, including all the way to X11 itself. (and not in the nice Gentoo way either).


I guess one factor for the other major platforms being left behind is what timeframe we're looking at (remember, at least one of the major distros isn't scheduling a release with 2.8+ support before December). If it's over six months out before we do a 0.45 release, then that is more reasonable. If we are targeting a shorter release cycle though, the move would be a lot more questionable.




Aside from the other issues, has anyone listed out what it is that we need in 2.8+ that's not in 2.4 and 2.6?