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Software Development: The Linux Problem
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[quote][b]CuteAlien[/b] wrote: And despite that they do care about backward compatibility. That should tell something :-). The problem in OpenSource is rather that no-one wants to do that. And unfortunately that's true from kernel to libs up to application software. Downward compatibility is probably just not sexy enough to work on and who cares about other developers or users anyway... One of the worst examples of this mentality shows when you use some debian derivate. Then you will probably know the famous dialogs for updating software on it. Something like "do you want to use a) the new version of ini-files b) the old ini-files c) look at the difference of those ini-files which will tell you nothing d) a bullet in your head". Just go with the default until your system starts crashing someday and after days of googling you will probably find some post telling you an idiot for not using a current ini. I think even just dropping this dialog out of apt and just telling application programmers that they have to care about config-versioning when starting applications (which is rather easy) would be better. But I really think that simply no one cares. And don't get me wrong. I use&love linux, but those are the rough corners which still make me swear & rant regularly. Windows has it's own problems, but downward compatibility is a good thing for everyone except the developers which have to code that. And if that is not possible at least a *working* transition path should be offered. But even that is often enough missing.[/quote]
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