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Nothing is free. You have so many hours of development time available. The more old versions you support, the less time you have available for new development.
by raganwald 15y ago
Nothing is free. You have so many hours of development time available. The more old versions you support, the less time you have available for new development.
The very fastest thing to do is to only suport the latest version. I'm not saying this is the best or right thing to do, just that there is a natural trade-off between supporting old versions and developing new functionality.
- Flenser 15y agoBut if the release schedule is faster, and there is less in each release, then surely they can support more releases. I'm assuming that the amount of code change relative to the latest release has more impact than the incremental burden of supporting each additional release.