Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@hllizi @tante @leonid do you know how often I became maintainer of something because I was the last remaining user? *shrug*

[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@hbons @tante

So "EMACS is just an editor" would have seen it finished by about 1978... 🤪

[hllizi@hespere.de]

@mirabilos
That's admirable but maybe not a model that works for everyone.
@tante @leonid

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@hllizi @tante @leonid if your software has a dependency, this is on the horizon implicitly

[hllizi@hespere.de]

@mirabilos

If it's the only possibility to keep the software running at all, of course, but just in order to keep the software running with an older version of the dependency so that you won't have to adjust the software itself?

@tante @leonid

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@hllizi @tante @leonid at that point it becomes a consideration, of course; but sometimes, there is no newer version

[hllizi@hespere.de]

@mirabilos
That's another thing of course, in this case there will hardly be any other option.
@tante @leonid

[entailment@woof.tech]

@tante i feel i've seen this take enough times by now that it's pretty cold, actually

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@entailment @tante it can still be hot if we keep feeding the fire with fresh fuel

[araquan@mstdn.social]

@tante

Somehow even ls(1) has gotten progressively more annoying over the years I've been using Linux.