[neomutt-devel] mutt vs neomutt

[Guyzmo]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 02:50:44PM +0100, toogley at mailbox.org wrote:
> > On February 13, 2017 at 1:28 AM David Champion <dgc at bikeshed.us> wrote:
> > I would be happy, personally, to cut off older operating
> > systems at some appointed version.  It's a great principle for 2.0.
> > But to be fair we need to manage that process, not just start applying
> > breaking patches willy-nilly.  We need to be answerable to our user
> > community, not to our developers' sense of glee at doing cool new
> > things.
> What exactly does that mean? Like announcing "The next release will not support OS X" ?

No, that only means to drop support for older deprecated systems
at major versions (like 2.0) and make a proper statement about it.

It wouldn't be fair that a perso who've run for 15 years the latest mutt
on his AIX4 — there's a hell just for people doing that — see support
for his system dropped while upgrading to 1.7.5 without notice.

No serious application does that, and it's perfectly normal.

-- 
Guyzmo