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[PLAN] Future legacy support #296
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Also, Open GApps 4.4 has some issues:
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@mfonville, should this just be closed? R will be out soon. 😛 I guess you could just strip the version-specific references out of it to keep it as a bit of a roadmap. |
Yeah, let's keep it as a road-map. Still also most of the really weird compatibility quirks are to deal with versions below 5.1. So in general lines:
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When Android N will be released, even more changes for our compatibility-mechanisms will probably have to be applied.
Our codebase becomes more difficult to manage over time, because of the many hacks for especially KitKat, but also a few for Lollipop 5.0, while install-base of these versions is becoming smaller over time.
The idea is to at some point drop development (but not support and builds) for 4.4 and 5.0. The moment Android N arrives is probably a good time for that.
Any major structural overhauls should still be done before doing this, so that the build-mechanisms between legacy and master can stay (mostly) the same, and that any changes can easily be cherry-picked to the legacy-branch.
TODOs:
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