On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 15:00 -0400, Doug wrote:
On 8/15/2010 7:21 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-08-15 03:59, Duaine Hechler wrote: It is very efficient for use, for example, on a partition holding maildir structures. Or one in which you run compilations. This sort of thing keeps coming up: KDE3.x, reiserfs, etc. If something works, why does it have to be continuously "developed?"
In order to continue working; software will not 'just keep working'. Subsystems and dependencies change and the layer over them must adapt and evolve. This is one form of bitrot [which is very real]. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot> Unmaintained software will have no one around who can fix it when that happens. It is better to migrate in an intentional manner to new [maintained] software than to collide with an unanticipated breakage.
upstairs--that's _us_, I believe--to tell the devels to stop fooling around, and that's what a lot of folks on this list have been doing! Or trying to!
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