> All distros are also volunteer projects who are happy to accept packaging submissions from the community.
You, sir, greatly underestimate the efforts that distro package maintainers do.
> I have base 4.3, apparently gitit won't run without 4.4. Are you seriously saying that's a version bump comparable to Python 3?
No, that version bump is not as significant. But it may introduce incompatibilities nevertheless. These may or may not be applicable to gitit, but that is determined what gitit defines in their cabal build files.
Sometimes these minor changes can be worked around by modifying the cabal build files of the project you're building with relaxed version numbers, but it works only in the simplest of cases.
> You, sir, greatly underestimate the efforts that distro package maintainers do.
Given that I've actually been paid to do exactly that professionally, I assure you that I'm not. But to be blunt: if you're not willing to ship usable software, don't claim to be shipping a "Platform". If you want to play in your unstable garden forever, that's great. The rest of us just won't care.
You, sir, greatly underestimate the efforts that distro package maintainers do.
> I have base 4.3, apparently gitit won't run without 4.4. Are you seriously saying that's a version bump comparable to Python 3?
No, that version bump is not as significant. But it may introduce incompatibilities nevertheless. These may or may not be applicable to gitit, but that is determined what gitit defines in their cabal build files.
Sometimes these minor changes can be worked around by modifying the cabal build files of the project you're building with relaxed version numbers, but it works only in the simplest of cases.