brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Krzysztof Klimonda]

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:25 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 03, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
> 
> >From an application developer's point of view, that's an issue because
> >it means that with every new Ubuntu release, you potentially have to
> >update your application to deal with changes in libraries. In addition,
> >you are under pressure to do that before the new Ubuntu release
> >otherwise your application may fail to work completely for a given
> >release.
> 
> I'm not sure how that differs from my experience with iPhone apps.  IOW,
> whenever a new iOS is released, I usually have several apps that are either
> outright broken, or just get compatibility updates in the weeks following
> release.

Still, why should we follow the same road as the iPhone rather than Mac
OS X and Windows where the upgrade is not as risky, and most of the
time, its clear long before what and when is going to be removed?

-- 
Krzysztof Klimonda <kklimonda at ubuntu.com>
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