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Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA
From: |
JD Smith |
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Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Feb 2024 09:17:01 -0500 |
> On Feb 18, 2024, at 9:08 AM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is the slippery slope I alluded to, and it is a credible
>> argument. To explore its boundaries, let's consider a scenario in
>> which the IDL language were well and truly dead. No existing licensed
>> interpreter capable of running IDL code existed any longer on any
>> system (licenses expire). Would maintaining this package in the core
>> be worth it at that point? If not, this indicates that the costs are
>> indeed non-zero.
>
> No, the question of cost to maintainence is simply moot if the software
> should become irreversibly useless. Please, let's be reasonable,
> consider realistic scenarios, and save the extreme hypotheticals for
> another day.
I don't judge this to be an unreasonable or extreme hypothetical. I (sadly)
give a 25% chance that this actually happens in the next 10 years — a
demonstrable peril of non-free software.
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, (continued)
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/17
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/17
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/17
- RE: [External] : Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Drew Adams, 2024/02/17
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/17
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Po Lu, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Po Lu, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA,
JD Smith <=
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/18
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Po Lu, 2024/02/18
- RE: [External] : Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Drew Adams, 2024/02/17
- Re: [External] : Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/17
- Re: [External] : Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/02/17
- Re: [External] : Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/17
- RE: [External] : Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Drew Adams, 2024/02/17
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, Po Lu, 2024/02/17
- Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA, JD Smith, 2024/02/17