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On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 08:40:16PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > If anyone knows the history behind the use old libraries, please let
> > us know.
> 
> IIRC the rule was to support distros as old as N years old, I think N
> was 2 or 3.  Old distros tend to have old libraries.
> 
> A lot of the core developers didn't like having to update their machines :-)

I upgraded my Debian distribution to testing on my machine just before I
found a working solution for the geda-gaf Windows port. That resulted in
other bugs I was forced to solve during the next month after it.