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Sometimes tool vendors deliberately sabotage your maintenance efforts. A friend of mine called me over to show me his codebase, which is diligently maintained
by mahmud 17y ago
Sometimes tool vendors deliberately sabotage your maintenance efforts.
A friend of mine called me over to show me his codebase, which is diligently maintained over 12 years using MS Visual Studio 6. As he booted the machine, a .NET update dialog popped up and he clicked "OK". .NET was updated, along with some important VS6 components, and when he fired up the IDE it told him it need to upgrade VS. After upgrading VS, reluctantly, he was no longer able to build the project.
- roofone 17y agoTo be pedantic, that's not MS deliberately sabotaging the project. That's perhaps MS being reckless with their upgrades, resulting in (I would suspect), an alienated customer. My lesson from this comment and the story is that configuration management is more important than I thought.