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> For example, least controversial are 30-year-old multimedia formats like the sunau audio format, which was used on SPARC and NeXT workstations in the late 198
by tablespoon 5y ago
> For example, least controversial are 30-year-old multimedia formats like the sunau audio format, which was used on SPARC and NeXT workstations in the late 1980s
Why would something like that add maintenance burden to the Python devs? I'd expect such code to be very, very stable.
- michaelt 5y agoMany software projects impose targets on themselves for things like 'software quality' that involves even stable code being checked and changed. For example, maybe they've received reports the code has bugs, but nobody thinks fixing is a good use of maintainers' time - or with such an old format, maybe no-one even knows what the correct behaviour should be. Maybe they have decided all file loading and network-interaction code should be fuzz-tested for security bugs. Or that every such module should have at least x% unit test coverage. Perhaps the the code uses deprecated methods and needs to be modernised. Or maybe they simply feel every file ought to have an owner, and nobody trusted has stepped up.