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LTS releases are very welcome, more open source software should adopt this release style. So far the Linux kernel, NodeJS, LibreOffice, Django have LTS candidat
by wooptoo 6y ago
LTS releases are very welcome, more open source software should adopt this release style. So far the Linux kernel, NodeJS, LibreOffice, Django have LTS candidates. Would love Python to join that list.
- rat9988 6y agoTheir LTS aren't available to non paying user I believe.
- nly 6y agoThe source code is freely available, and it's really not that hard to build. https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.0/single/ https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.0/single/
- viraptor 6y agoWhat kind of lts term would you expect from python? Django is 3 years, libreoffice I can't find lts, node is 2 years, Linux is 6 years. Python is supported for ~5 years (closer to 6 in practice) without any promise of an lts release. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#lifespan https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#lifespan Would you want more than that?
- wooptoo 6y agoThanks, didn't realise Python releases are supported for so long. For Libreoffice the LTS release is called 'Still': https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/