On 05/28/2015 03:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
What you're saying is, in effect, that boost 1.54 breaks backward compatibility and boost-terminal isn't going to get upgraded.
Yes.
Isn't it up to boost's maintainer to see to it that this doesn't become an issue?
How? boost-terminal isn't in the hypothetical current release, so there's nothing to check.
One of the problems the OSS community keeps pointing to in commercial software is the way newer versions of programs fail to read or write files in formats that older versions understand, while bragging that their packages don't suffer from that fault. Has this changed, or is it simply a case of sloppy testing?
Nothing has changed. The advantage of Free Software has never been that nothing ever changes, or that software is backward compatible forever. The advantage is that if *you* need backward compatibility, or to be able to read files in old formats, or any other need, then you have the right and the ability to make that happen. You have the right to change your software to do what you need. If you lack the skill, you can hire someone who has it. With proprietary software, you do not have the right, and you very often don't have the technical information required to make such a thing happen anyway.
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