On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:06 +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > I agree that weighing the user base doesn't make any practical sense. > But I can't understand the reason for removing something that works > fine because it may rot in the future.
Every port, working or not, imposes a certain amount of maintenance overhead. It also adds inertia, because a small change that affects every backend might discourage someone from making that change, even if it's the right thing to do. Ben
