On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 06:28 AM, Rune Broberg wrote:
Python 2.7 is end-of-life in little over a month. Developing new software
using that cannot reasonably be encouraged.
Hi Rune,
please don't think that I am referring to your own excellent software.
I know it works when all the bits are in the right place ;)
What I refer to is the general disease of of always needing to mess about finding new dependencies, updating to a new version
of something or other or trashing and rebuilding hard disks for another OS and it wastes a lot of peoples time.
And all for what ?
The excuse of security updates is wearing thin, rarely do the end users see any tangible benefits and not everything is plugged into to the internet.
Every Android phone that's a day old seems to require a hundred updates.
Every day old Windows PC seems to need a a day connecting to Microsoft for updates.
You would have thought that with all these years gone by, things would be sorted out by now.
Linux is just as bad, nearly every day my update manager is offering more "security" updates.
Windows...another version of MS Silveright, another version of .NET crap just to continue to run another updated app.
All this update crap is everywhere and we end users want to get on with our lives.
That's why I think that some form of line needs to be drawn *generally* when releasing *anything*.
Maybe Python 3.5, that seems to be default in Linux or Raspberry Pi's only 12 months ago.
And look at Linux Mint.
LM 18.3 is still LTS.
Why would I want to upgrade to 19.x for no benefit.
THere's issues with WINE being installed.
And the last time I looked at a newer WINE it appeared to have dropped support for the od Win 3.1 stuff, which is the only reason why most of us need it anyway.
That is according to the WINECFG that I tried to set up, and it no longer allowed me to set up anything old than about WinXP from memory.
All this pushing the blame back to users to upgrade / update is not good enough.
It's devs being too lazy to think about making their apps works for the majority.
Well I'm not playing the game any more these days, I have a life to get on with.
A PC should be working for *me*, I am not it's damn slave anymore ;-)
73 de Andy
