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I don’t see why anyone’s obligated to support Really Old Thing just because some people don’t want any change.
by TulliusCicero 5y ago
I don’t see why anyone’s obligated to support Really Old Thing just because some people don’t want any change.
- richardfey 5y agoObligated: no. Document how things are and instructions for those who want to make an ISO by themselves: it would be nice. But there's no obligation, just expectations and communities.
- maest 5y agoThe value of backwards compatibility is directly proportional to the ratio of "value of user time" / "value of dev time". Depending on whether you are the dev, the user or a third party, you may attach different values to that ratio. In the extreme, a dev might think that ratio is 0 and a user might that it's a large number. (People arguing that ISOs are already widely supported and useful are implicitly attaching a large value to that ratio) I don't think there's an objectively correct value that can be assigned to that ratio, hence disagreements about whether Really Old Thing should be supported.
- nyuszika7h 5y agoSupporting ISO takes basically zero effort. By dropping support for it the developer is just wasting both users' and his own time. It would be far better to say "you can download an ISO but I don't recommend it, here's why a plain disk image is a better way".