On 1/11/2016 12:05 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro MartÃnez wrote: >> No software version can live forever, ... <snip> > > Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer > an amendment... > > I have some things still running in DOS 5 in a virtual machine because > that is the most effective environment to run them in, and I don't > expect any future OS to change that. Does this mean I have these > accessible to the outside world? Absolutely not. So while I do see > use cases for very long outdated packages, I will also agree these use > cases are not mainstream by any means, and if your use case does > warrant an old package, appropriate measures to isolate the old > packages also need to be taken. >
Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple