The moving target of OS support

[Marco Trevisan]

Il 12/08/2015 08:45, Christopher James Halse Rogers ha scritto:
> 
> 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.

You can do it also using some hacks on the code (not so big actually),
but it's doable.

However, while I tend to agree that having development support for the
latest LTS is a good move to attract people, in this scenario we should
probably advertise more the usage of other development tools such as LXC
(I've been able to both run mir from LXC and just mir in my host and
clients on the LXC easily) and vmware (well here's we have docs).

So providing a lxc-configuration for developing mir on it would be imho
a good compromise.

Cheers