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by moviuro 2894 days ago
Well, if you wrote stable code in the first place, there wouldn't indeed be any need for updates!
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eeZah7Ux 2894 days ago
Jokes aside, a lot of developers would call a project "dead" when is working as intended and not receiving new commits.
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sametmax 2894 days ago
'ls' is dead, we should stop using it.
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moviuro 2893 days ago
Bad example ;) Updated on June 17th: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/24053fbd8f9bd3...

OpenBSD true(1) however... seems pretty much dead. https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/true

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sametmax 2893 days ago
It's pretty amazing.
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sametmax 2894 days ago
True. Besides, my specs are future proof. So I always offer my clients a 120 years "no update needed" guaranty, with very durable titanium punched cards.
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