The moving target of OS support

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Daniel van Vugt 
<daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
> I feel that is just making excuses to not aim higher. The whole 
> platform changes every six months and yes Linux developers are used 
> to the pain that comes with that. But would it hurt us to try and 
> make Mir one of the more stable parts of that platform?

Yes! We don't¹ arbitrarily decide to use new libraries or features 
because they just happen to be there. We use new libraries or features 
because they make our jobs easier. Not using them does indeed hurt us.

¹: Or, to be pedantic, shouldn't. I don't think we've arbitrarily 
introduced new dependencies in the past, though.