Re: Which programming Language
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Well, to be fair, who is really to say the compiler will go missing?
> I've never heard of a popular language's compiler/interpretor going
> missing, especially considering that every Linux distribution mirrors
> it.
>
> I bet that in ten years Debian will still have a legacy package for
> Python 2.x interpreters.
You assume that upstream will still be maintaining (doing bug and
security fixes) 2.x, and that a DD will be interested in maintaining the
package. Also, you're assuming that Debian will stil run on whatever
computer hardware I'm using. I'll have to see what hardware I have that
won't install Lenny.
Doug.
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