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by microtonal
4100 days ago
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95% of the developers left for the newer version because on open source projects no one can be forced to work on legacy applications Yep. I see this a lot in the scientific world. Clusters and other high-performance hardware run old versions of Scientific Linux or CentOS (because they are well-supported and the bugs are known). However, a lot of open source project (e.g. in machine learning) expect you to run the latest Ubuntu or OS X version. Result: you usually end up hand-compiling large amounts of software, manually adding '-I' and '-L' flags to oddball build systems that don't pick up CFLAGS or LDFLAGS correctly. Nobody cares about backwards compatibility, everyone wants the new toys. |
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