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> The idea that […] you shouldn't want to use the latest version of software is clearly ludicrous. To get to that world, we developers would have to give up ma
by michaelt 2y ago
> The idea that […] you shouldn't want to use the latest version of software is clearly ludicrous.
To get to that world, we developers would have to give up making breaking changes.
We can’t have any “your python 2 code doesn’t work on python 3” nonsense.
Should we stop making breaking changes? Maybe. Will we? No.
- dagw 2y agoWe can’t have any “your python 2 code doesn’t work on python 3” nonsense This only happens because distros insit on shipping python and then everyone insisted on using that python to run their software. In an alternate world everybody would just ship their own python with their own app and not have that problem. That's how windows basically solves this
- bluGill 2y agoWhich sounds good until you run out of disk space. Of course I grew up when hard drives were not affordable by normal people - my parents had to save for months to get my a floppy drive.
- charcircuit 2y agoYou can have both python 2 and python 3 installed. Apps should get the dependencies they request. Distros swapping out dependencies out from under them has caused numerous issues for developers.