I don't agree with the comment there. In my mind, the LTS release would not mean anything. It would just be a label on an arbitrary release every couple of years. I feel it could help the ecosystem align on which MSRV to choose, so that you don't have one crate choosing 1.x, another chooses 1.(x+1) and another chooses 1.(x+5). It would be nice if we just sort of agreed that if you care about your crate being used by somewhat older compilers, use the LTS version and consider the implications if your MSRV go beyond that version.

Of course any crate author is free to completely ignore this and choose whatever MSRV they desire. But perhaps a significant amount of authors would put at least a little effort (but not much) in trying to avoid raising the MSRV above the LTS version, just as authors may try to avoid breaking changes and such. It's just a nudge, nothing more.

[–] StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

I think having "LTS" mean nothing is counterproductive. Why would anyone agree to apply "meaningless" labels like that? It would only confuse people more if we applied a label which implied support but nobody was actually obligated to support it any more than another release.