On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 04/06/2015 10:56 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Broken from the "Summary of Reddit thread".
>
> Fedora's lack of a graphical major-version updater comes up
> constantly. I think it's probably time to start brainstorming how
> to solve it, with a stated intention of having things work for
> upgrading Fedora 23 -> Fedora 24 *at minimum* and an ideal
> situation of having Fedora 22 -> Fedora 23 upgrades work (with
> changes made during Fedora 22's stable lifecycle to support this).
Is this really a good use of development resources? I mean, really—if
developers are the primary user group, is it unreasonable to expect
that they will use a shell once or twice per year to perform the upgrades?
That might surprise you but no; there are developers who aren't really
used to a terminal and are uncomfortable using it "that's like DOS".
Those coming from the Windows side ... the (developer) world does not
consists of UNIX (Linux + OS X) users but the vast majority is using
Windows.