WiringPi – deprecated

Re:WiringPi – deprecated by flyinglizard on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:43PM (#20783454)

I read this and still don’t understand what is the issue behind the drama. If you don’t want to support it, then don’t; if someone stole your public domain work, contact the EFF or more realistically just understand it’s cost of doing business.

We all get tired at some point and move on, you don’t owe anyone anything. And thanks for the library!

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Re:WiringPi – deprecated by cryptonector on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:04PM (#20783633)

It's not "public domain work". The "drama" is that the community abused the author, so the author quit providing free labor to the community.

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Re:WiringPi – deprecated by Gibbon1 on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:21PM (#20784188)

Personalty think if Debian won't change the support email then he should just put in an auto response listing the Debian's maintainers email addresses.

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Re:WiringPi – deprecated by exocos on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:25AM (#20786351)

As far as I know, Debian does not ship WiringPI. Debian does not even have an official RPi image. What has any Debian maintainer to do with this?

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Re:WiringPi – deprecated by daveFNbuck on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:27AM (#20785610)

So he should stop using email in order to keep doing unpaid work?

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Re:WiringPi – deprecated by stjohnswarts on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:49AM (#20785294)

He wanted to let the users of his software know why he was quitting. Not everything has to be honey soaked drivel. He gave his opinion. It had a little bit of well deserved ranting in there but it did let everyone know that the library is deprecated and you're now on your own with it.

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Re:WiringPi – deprecated by mannykannot on Saturday August 24, 2019 @08:07AM (#20786665)

It is a useful cautionary tale for someone contemplating doing something similar.

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