On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:03:08AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > > > We could certainly consider dropping support for OSX or windows. > > That sort of token solidarity is actually counterproductive: > if you believe that non-releases lead to non-users,
yes > and you think that > non-releases for GNU/Linux may pressure GNU/Linux developers into making > OSX/Windows releases, no > then how does a non-release for GNU/Linux, with > its corresponding result in decreasing GNU/Linux users and GNU/Linux > developers, help in recruiting GNU/Linux developers that can be > pressured into making OSX and Windows releases? it doesn't? Suppose we announce a big new shiny lilypond 2.16. For linux and freebsd only. OSX and windows users can go screw themselves. - what does this do to our ONLY documentation writers and reviewers (who are all windows-based)? Will they be a) more motivated to work on lilypond, b) no change, or c) less motivated? - what does this do to our active developers, approximately half of which are on OSX? Will they be a) b) or c) ? > And I don't think that we are doing ourselves a favor by > defining "stable" as "a random moment when somebody managed to > get GUB to run for Windows and OSX". Good news, we're not. We're definining "stable" as "is not deliberately worse than the previous release, for all platforms which we officially release for". Plus a little bit of "... and we can reasonably expect a reasonable contributor to be able to contribute". I will admit that the latter point could be construed as "if we make it very difficult to contribute to lilypond, then I'm going to punish everybody by not having stable releases" -- but almost all of those "can't-contribute" bugs can be fixed in an hour or two, and is platform-independent (or rather: it only involves lilydev, which is ubuntu, most often inside virtualbox, so anybody can work on that). Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
