Thomas Hochstein wrote:
> OK, how's this then. 9.5.3 (IIRC) came out about the time the notice
was published. It costs virtually nothing to add an extra DNS entry,
and the release could have had the default server URL changed for
Freshclam to fetch updates. it wouldn't even have been a great issue
to have a 9.5.4 just for that - and of course the change would be
quite prominent in the release notes then as well.
Why didn't you suggest that beforehand?
Because, as has been made quite clear beforehand, I did not know this
was happening - and I'm far from alone in that. If I had been aware
at the right time* then I would have suggested it.
* Note that "right time" does NOT mean spotting the EOL announcement
when it was made. That was too late as the decisions had already been
made then.
Why didn't you just DO that if you consider it necessary as it "costs
virtually nothing", neither time nor money?
Eh ? Are you suggesting that I have the ability to go back in time
and make changes to someone else's DNS and code ?
As for "costs virtually nothing", yes I believe that is a good
description of what it would have cost - and don't forget that
deciding to EOL and forcibly block older versions was not without
cost. Unless the project has some strange ways to make things tedious
and difficult to change, then it would probably have cost less in
time than the discussions (if there were any) on the ethics of
issuing a kill signal to older software.
But it's a moot point - the team didn't do that, we are where we are,
and a lot of people are unhappy for various reasons.
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