Following conventions

Posted Sep 1, 2012 15:09 UTC (Sat) by rich0 (guest, #55509)
In reply to: Following conventions by rahulsundaram
Parent article: The GNOME project at 15

Not only that, but was 3.5 still maintained?

Distros generally ship the version of upstream that is maintained - that is the one that when you report a bug against it the bug is very likely to get fixed and posted in a new release.

Once 3.5 was abandoned, distros basically had little choice but more to 4. So then to say that it was only a beta/etc is a bit disingenuous.

Following conventions

Posted Sep 1, 2012 15:31 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

KDE 3.5 was never abandoned. But it's true that most app devs got lured into the upgrade lure. 3.5.10 was relased in august 2008, when 4.1 was already out, and 3.5.13 was release as Trinity last year.