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On top of how late "new stuff" often was, I never understood why they kept out of date, unsupported stuff running for so long - especially for free, open source
by lostapathy 8y ago
On top of how late "new stuff" often was, I never understood why they kept out of date, unsupported stuff running for so long - especially for free, open source projects.
http://rubies.travis-ci.org/ http://rubies.travis-ci.org/ They support ruby 1.8.7 and ree. ree went unsupported in 2013 (https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/ruby-eee-eol https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/ruby-eee-eol)
If anything, I feel like they are actually doing the open source community a disservice by supporting build environments that are no longer supported by the upstream community. They legitimize testing against ancient, unsupported environments, rather than moving forward deliberately to stay on a supported stack.
I understand there is a burden on updating software, but given all the trouble we have with breaches in old software, we need to bias the world toward staying on stacks that get security updates rather than sitting stagnant.