Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 1.10 branch + release schedule

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:07:27 +0200
Am 19.04.2013 21:45, schrieb Gerald Combs:
On 4/18/13 5:17 PM, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
Note that we would still be committed to supporting OS X PPC and U3
users until Wireshark 1.10 reaches end of life in 2015.

I suggest remove OsX PPC and U3 even for the 1.10 release.

After a bit of research it looks like we should probably drop OS X PPC
support now, before the 1.10 branch. Apple has an annoying lack of an
official life cycle policy for OS X but traditionally they only release
updates for the two most recent versions OS X. Leopard (10.5) is now
well outside this window. (Which reminds me - we need to set a schedule
for dropping Windows XP support.)

Hi!

I guess U3 is almost dead right now. Are you sure that the downloads are not from mirroring servers or alike? ;-)


Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP:

"Extended support will end on April 8, 2014�after which no more security patches or new support information will be provided"

Seems like a good idea to roughly have end of WS XP support around that date - unless MS extends this period again.

Regards, ULFL