Hi, On 12/15/24 2:11 PM, Marc Haber wrote: [ Rewriting existing tools in another language ] > Yes, go ahead with that, but don't force people to do that, and don't > take the old version away until the new one is feature par and bug > free.
I find the latter a bit offensive and unrealistic. Rewrites after a decade usually reduce complexity and excise features that turned out to be a bad idea. Or introduce some subtle bugs that get ironed out only when it sees usage. In today's world the alternative is to remove the package - given the rather aggressive removals we see in testing, if not unstable. That would also not give you a version that has either feature parity nor bug freeness - unless you count keeping it installed locally on your machines and never getting updates again. Kind regards Philipp Kern
