Daniel Micay on Twitter: "@Gankro @BRIAN_____ It's reasonable to support older branches of tools / libraries that are actively maintained. A distribution freezing it and only fixing a subset of issues marked as security bugs doesn't count. It should be them working on making software fit into their increasingly broken model." / Twitter

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the most compelling argument i've seen here is that this is a frustrating hurdle for new users who, quite reasonably, expect that they can/should install the compiler toolchain via their package manager like yeah it's the distro's fault, but that doesn't matter?

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They'll have a bad experience if they take that path on a distribution without a sane update model even if a small subset of the ecosystem decides to support it. It wastes far more of their time to delay finding out that it's going to be a painful, poorly supported way to do it.

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It's reasonable to support older branches of tools / libraries that are actively maintained. A distribution freezing it and only fixing a subset of issues marked as security bugs doesn't count. It should be them working on making software fit into their increasingly broken model.

5:04 AM · Oct 30, 2018Twitter Web App

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