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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: -platform linux-g++-objprelink    still useful?
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-05-18 17:38:47
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On Sunday, 18 May 2003 13:01, Neil Stevens wrote:
>
> Can someone explain to me why slightly old free systems are treated with
> more hostility than any non-free tools?  People never seem this eager to
> remove all traces of support for non-free systems.  Why remove what was,
> not too long ago, the best free stuff available?

Possible explanations:
1) Help people use the new technologies (or new versions of the old 
technology) instead of the old one, as the new ones offer more 
stability/quality/performance
2) Cleanup of a code that, being freely developed, shouldn't become more 
difficult to maintain than strictly necessary (in my book, needing ifdefs for 
platforms/features/configs is plain cruelty)
3) implement new standards for some specific feature, standards that became 
avail _after_ the first version of the feature was produced.

Dunno if any of this applies to the case that made you ask the question, but I 
hope you find these to be valid generic answers.

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Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna@kde.org .. http://www.kde.org
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