The moving target of OS support

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Daniel van Vugt 
<daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
> We did. C++14 was completely unnecessary and the reason why you can't 
> build Mir on our latest LTS today (without PPAs etc). The change to 
> the code was mostly cosmetic. Yes, that did make our lives slightly 
> easier in parts, but to what cost? If the cost is that some great 
> developers using trusty never get involved in Mir then I think it's 
> too high.

Yeah, I think the entirety of our disagreement lies in our estimate of 
this cost. I assign a negligible probability to the statement “we 
would have had some great contributions to Mir if only it could build 
on 14.04 without adding PPAs”.

I agree that it *lowers* the probability, but (a) I think the 
absolutely zero-extra-friction probability of contribution is on the 
low side, and (b) the extra friction of adding an 
Ubuntu-core-team-supported PPA to install gcc-5 is negligable.