Am 08.10.2014 um 20:25 schrieb Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner@gmail.com wrote:
But oddly, he didn't even mention that there would be a real simple solution - just add backwards-compatible improvements instead of actively wrecking the interfaces everyone else had depended on for decades.
"decades". That, by itself, already calls for an update, no?
No, do you dig a new foundation for your house every 10 years? Trade in your wife and kids?
But so did other systems, but they later found out that sometimes you have to break this backwards to infinity compatibility in order to get some big progress.
Only if the design was bad in the first place. And if the design was really bad, there wouldn't be any users to infuriate by breaking the interfaces they use. But the unix design that linux and linux distributions copied was pretty good, including the way init started things.
was - the requirements at that time were nearly/completely different. We have different scenarios right now.
-- LF