Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0

[Daniel Carosone]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:07:13PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > I don't see why an operating system choice (let alone which variant of
> > an operating system, or which variant of the variant) by an end user
> > matters.
> 
> If end-users can do "apt-get install monotone" (or equivalent), that's a
> rather lower barrier than having to go find a more recent version on our
> downloads page, and is one less reason for projects to avoid us.

Of course, no doubt or dispute.  Why must they get an (unreasonably)
old monotone as a result?  If they did, wouldn't their displeasure
best be expressed at whoever is (not) maintaining their equivalent of
apt-get? 

> I'm not thinking about maintainers at all here, I'm wondering if
> requiring extra setup by whatever fraction of other projects' developers
> are running a stable distro release might scare projects away. Maybe
> that's a completely bogus concern, though.

Understood, but how long is reasonable for the maintainers to catch up
to applications on that release?

--
Dan.

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