On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM chao an <magicd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM Lwazi Dube <lwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > An open source project's ability to innovate should not be > > > > held up by your preferences. > > > > > > The last sentence is completely wrong. Its not about "preference" but > > > impacting self-compatibility and long term maintenance. Messing the > > > foundations and defaults is not innovation. Try building a home when > > > the project constantly changes during the process, when you have 10 > > > floors ready and suddenly you need to change pavements. Innovation is > > > when you create new functionality and give users a choice without > > > breaking existing working stuff. > > So you think it's more important to maintain your current 10 floors > building, and it's none of your business if a 100 floors skyscraper appears > in the future? so could you afford all the developer time spent on this > kind of problem?
Anchao, what I meant was to finish 10 floor building as planned (development), let people live inside that building (maintenance), and move development resources to 100 floor building as planned, without changing plans in the middle of construction, not getting stuck on 10 floor building construction because plans change all the time and never getting to that 100 floor building. Its good to have solid immutable tools that you can depend on. Imagine there are devices already deployed out there that may not be possible to update, yes maintenance (in terms of keeping them inter-operational) may be the priority in that case, because replacing all devices may wipe out the company and leave owner with ubearable financial debt. I know this CRC is an important and quite hard problem, and I hope there can be a win-win solution where users have choice when they need one, thank you for bringing this up to the attention.. to be honest I have no clue what is the best solution here if there is no standard to relay on :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
