[Xastir-dev] How many years should we go back? (library compatibility)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Tom Russo wrote:

>> My proposal is that we shoot for 5 years back. If a library has deprecated a function and a new one replaced it 5 or more years ago, we should be good to replace that section of code with the new function w/o maintaining backwards compatibility with the earlier function call.
>>
>> Any takers on 5 years? Different suggestions?
>
> 5 years seems reasonable to me.  Some distros are *extremely* conservative
> and may have long term support versions (staring angrily at RHEL, frex).

Any dissenting opinions out there?


> The code I was thinking of whacking is actually there to support old versions
> of Magick from over 15 years ago.  I think it should be very safe to clean
> it out.

Agreed.

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