On 2017-10-07, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > They're probably to busy re-doing working programs from scratch every > few versions, with a brand new "improved" UI (almost invariably > including a kool new design that uses light grey text on an ever so > slightly lighter grey background)
Yes! That! > and deleting any useful functionality that the lead developer > personally doesn't use, because "nobody uses that". > > https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html >From the above: "Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?" I think he's being overly optimistic. If you want to be honest about a lot of open-source GUI stuff, version 0.8 should generally be followed by 0.7. It seems that the state of affairs in non-GUI open source programs is far, far better -- maintainers often actually care whether the program works correclty and does useful things. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
