Comment 37 for bug 483443
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(In reply to comment #26)
> I disagree. 3.6 is so far off that a library released in March 2008 seems quite
> reliable on a constantly-
> If 3.6 comes out one year after 3.5, then I think it'll be the same or longer
> than the period between GTK+ 2.10 and Firefox 3 that required it at a minimum.
> Plus, IIRC, doesn't OLPC only ship with GIO and not gnome-vfs?
> Less code to maintain and less interface complexity is always a good thing.
It looks like we're going to try to release 3.6 this year, seriously enough that we're nearly feature frozen. If we're successful, is it really OK for a release in November/December 2009 to depend on a library that was first released in March 2008, so that everyone who hasn't upgraded their distro within the last 18 months loses functionality? I'm not convinced.
The way I see it we have three options:
1) Put GIO in 1.9.2; people who haven't upgraded their distros will yell at us and say we hate freedom because we're not supporting them
2) Stick with GVFS for 1.9.2; people on the bleeding edge will yell at us and say we hate freedom because we're not supporting the latest and greatest
3) Support both; people will yell at us for being bloated
However, given that most distros are already on ridiculously short support cycles, we're probably already going to support most of them longer than the distro vendors themselves, so I vote for option #1.