Re: OMG is nothing sacred?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) 1 day ago
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There a term for this problem: "upgrades". And then OE broke Eu in so many unforeseen ways.
And so did forced OS "upgrades". I got a notice this morning that my current OS is no longer "supported" by an application i run.
Kat
Exactly this. At least with FOSS, we can try to get it working again... and SDPringle nailed down exactly why win32lib broke.
And, 20 years ago, no one except me was begging people to upload their program as an entire stand-alone package. They'd upload the bare minimum that used the include files on their computer. Up to you to find all those included files, and as you can see, the correct versions.
More like 30, but yeah. At least it's somewhat understandable - in the days when most folks only had dialup internet, and not even the good 56k kind, every byte was precious. Before the Linux kernel was formed, there was a similar situation with Minix - folks trying to turn Minix into a full fledged OS (as opposed to a study object as intended by its original author) likewise only distributed sets of patches. It's easy to see why most everyone went to Linux from Minix.
20 years ago - as far back as 2003 I was working on combine.ex - a utility that would grab all the include files and stuff it together. In 2010, I committed the version version of eudist.ex into the OE source based on that. So the devs did try to address this problem...
