On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I remember people asking about upgrades from pre-1.5
on IRC as late as
this month. Suppose, we need to keep the encoding conversion too,
because people who don't upgrade from 1.3 or so are usually the same
people who will have problems with manual conversion.
It would always be possible to tell them to upgrade to 1.16 first,
then 1.17 or later. If the pre-1.5 upgrade process is really too much
trouble to maintain, I think that would be okay. Certainly better
than keeping it around but not testing it enough so that it doesn't
work reliably in practice.