On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:34:45PM +0000, Peter Tribble wrote: > One thing that causes real problems is connecting application versions to > specific OS releases. The model where the application is frozen on a > minor OS release and then a new version anointed at the next minor release > is unhelpful, indeed harmful. Why should my application be forced to break > or upgrade because I need to migrate to new hardware or access a new > OS feature?
Worse: forcing you to do that creates incentive for you not to move to the latest and greatest OS, and that is draining. There are high costs in carrying bloat and in not carrying bloat.
