On 2020-02-17 12:37, Andy Wingo wrote:
Thought experiment: what would GNU be if all of its packages stopped developing? Dead, right?
The immediate effect would become more of a stable base for the vast amount of material that depends on it. Nothing that depends on GNU Anything would experience a breakage due to a newer version of GNU This or GNU-That. The world would converge on a single version of GNU Autotools, and so then people could just have that one version installed in order to update ./configure script images with minimal diffs, instead of having half a dozen versions installed and using the closest matching one.
