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I don't think that developers in general have great interest in maintaining obsolete code which would only cause some users to continue using that old code, per

I don't think that developers in general have great interest in maintaining obsolete code which would only cause some users to continue using that old code, perpetuating the maintenance headache. Money buys you that interest, but in the free software world you better move along with the developers.

einpoklum 6y ago
> I don't think that developers in general have great interest in maintaining obsolete code which would only cause some users to continue using that old code, perpetuating the maintenance headache. Well, you know, if you're in a project central to a lot of the FOSS world, then there's a mix of doing exciting new features and doing maintenance. Plus, if you just think of "fixing a compiler bug" as "fixing it on the N versions we're currently supporting", it may feel as less of a pain than "backporting a bunch of bug fixes". > Money buys you that interest, but in the free software world you better move along with the developers. Hey, I'm in the free software world. I maintained a Seamonkey 1.x version of an extension of mine until last year - 13 years after the last significant release (1.1).