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It's not just a question of what the new version fixes, there is also the question of what it breaks. Sometimes new versions trigger latent bugs no one knew abo
by mwcremer 5y ago
It's not just a question of what the new version fixes, there is also the question of what it breaks. Sometimes new versions trigger latent bugs no one knew about that luckily happened to work fine on the old tools. Finding and fixing those can be difficult and time-consuming.
- charcircuit 5y agoThis argument would have merit if everyone still used 5.x to compile Linux, but that's simply not the truth. Most people are using a Linux compiled by a somewhat up to date version of GCC.