> How does WRI "support deprecated code"? And for how long? One difference between a company like WRI and the Sage project is that WRI charges for its product to get money to do (among other things) maintenance of old versions or caring about upgrade procedures.
A pragmatic approach for Sage is: If there are enough resources then old code can be supported, if not then not. Even though I am very much for free an open software, if there are no resources then the project cannot care too much about legacy code. Sage is mostly done by volunteers. Nobody (except the people paid for working on Sage) can be forced to care about things that he/she is not interested in. BTW, free (in the sense of the GPL) does not mean gratis. Of course, it would be good to help users to make a smooth transition from one version to another, but caring too much about 10-year-old versions removes resources from progressing Sage. Just my two cents. (Maybe it was just one.) Ralf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
