Re:We Need Software Updates Forever
by JohnFen on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:11PM
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As a user, it doesn't matter to me why software updates have degraded like this. All that matters is that they have.
As a developer, I don't really understand. I've been working on large, complex software that targets multiple operating systems for years, and we don't have any such issues.
It sounds to me like a lot of companies are using development methodologies that are a bit broken...
I've long thought that the reason for this is rather different -- the industry really wants to go to continuous-release models (which I don't think is a good thing, but that's a separate issue), which make security-only releases a bit nonsensical.
As a developer, I don't really understand. I've been working on large, complex software that targets multiple operating systems for years, and we don't have any such issues.
It sounds to me like a lot of companies are using development methodologies that are a bit broken...
I've long thought that the reason for this is rather different -- the industry really wants to go to continuous-release models (which I don't think is a good thing, but that's a separate issue), which make security-only releases a bit nonsensical.