Bump minimum version
loicteixeira opened this issue · 3 comments
So far, the minimum version to use the API is Unity 5.0.1 (as of v2.1.0) which means the package has to be generated with Unity 5.0.1.
It's probably not necessary to support that far back and could probably be bumped to something more recent. Unity 2017 maybe?
Bumping the minimum version is a good idea, but I'm not sure if we should jump directly to Unity 2017.
Unity 2017 is awesome, but I think there are still many users in the Unity 5 cycle.
I don't have fresh numbers of the usage distribution, but in June it kinda looked like this:
Unity 5.6 and 2017: 65% (unfortunately I don't have separate numbers for them)
Unity 5.5: 18%
Unity 5.4: 8%
Unity 5.3: 5%
Unity 5.2: 1%
<Unity 5.2: ~3%
So we could savely ignore all versions below 5.3 and still cover 95%.
We could even go up to 5.5 (covering 83%), but I think we should not bump the minimum version above that (at least for now)
Fair point. 2017 would leave too many developers behind.
So it seems to be between 5.3 and 5.5. As a side note, I had open an issue to investigate UnityWebRequest as a replacement of WWW (see #78 for more info). It was introduced in 5.4 so the minimum version would need to be that in order to experiment with it.
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