The moving target of OS support

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Daniel van Vugt 
<daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
> My personal experience (and what I've observed in our users over 
> years of playing customer support) is that plenty of intelligent 
> people prefer LTS over the latest release. For stability and long 
> term support. I feel that's a reasonable and intelligent decision to 
> make if someone wants to keep their one Ubuntu machine on LTS.

Oh, absolutely! But you *can* easily develop Mir on Ubuntu 14.04; you 
just need to add the toolchain PPA and install gcc-5.

The alternatives aren't “use new things, and only people on 15.04 can 
build Mir” and “don't use new things”. The alternatives are 
“use new things, and add a small additional step to those on 14.04 
who want to build Mir” versus “don't use new things”.

Now, that additional step is not nothing, but I don't believe that it's 
a significant barrier.