On 11/22/2016 03:32 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On domingo, 20 de novembro de 2016 13:55:57 PST Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>> wiki, yes. but more importantly, the downloads page. then again, the
>> message should say "don't bother downloading, it won't build". so why not
>> just pull the downloads?
> Open Source never, EVER removes or replaces a release. They should remain
> there for historical reasons, even if broken.
>
Thiago,
* If broken, some note to that effect that lets people know would be
at least minimally courteous and appreciated.
* It does not matter if it was working when first released, if 48hrs later
is subsequently breaks with the existing code. And all subsequent
users are affected going forward, for ever, as you point out, as it is
not removed or replaced. Most projects rev their release when something
like that happens, or provide some mitigation for users.
* I'm sorry to keep harping on this, but it is critical to some of us users,
and for our business models, such as they may be, that we can depend
on iotivity and have an agreement on basic working assumptions going
forward.
