Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

["Cristian Rodriguez R." <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. escribió:

> It happens also with cars and anything else. 

Exactly..is called "product lifecycle" ;-)


>There is a moment when a car
> is no longer manufactured, 
but they still make spares.
>Then even spares
> are no longer made, then the spares in storage are spent, then the last
> users have to get used spares from the dumps,


if PHP4 were a car, I can say it is no longer manufactured and the last
spare parts are in  the way to the dealers, but they are not produced in
serie but by small amounts from time to time.

>thus suse (the car dealer) has to stop
> providing it because they can't get it upstream (the car manufacturers).

following your analogy, is worth to mention that the "suse dealer" has
supported "the car" for longer time than the other "major dealers" and
is time to phase it out once for all because "the car" manteniance is
causing techs trouble when they should devote their time improving the
 "new equivalent" model, that has **waaay** less problems and is
supported by the manufacturer.


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