Andreas Jung wrote:
At some point you have to make a cut to get rid of old crap. Fixing the
zLOG
issue is a straight forward approach with very little risks for the
programmer and it won't take too much time..I don't see a major problem
with that.
Except that it hits a sore spot for open source right on the head.
Products are developed for our customers, and they will keep working for
those customers until they choose to upgrade.
In my case, a single product often starts out as a tool for a single
customer, that I then make available. Usually I get a lot of
(unreasonable) change request that I ignore :-s, but no bug fixes at
all. That is fair enough, as I don't fix many bugs in other peoples
products.
But the problem is that I don't fix bugs that doesn't exist for my
customers. So deprecation warnings are ignored, until the product
sponsor chooses upgrade.
If this is how OSS generally works, as I expect, then deprecations will
break stuff that just doesn't get fixed. And new user will find it
impossible to get all the products they need to work together, in the
latest version.
But the problem is probably not the time based release, just that there
is to few generations for deprecations.
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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark
http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science
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