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Re:Compilers in OpenBSD (2013) by the_why_of_y on Sunday April 05, 2015 @07:00AM (#9323695)
Of course, everybody wants to have an LTS release of every piece of software they depend on, that "just works" for all their use cases [1], and that somebody else maintains for many years, like magic.

The problem is, nobody wants to pay for its maintenance, hence it does not exist [2].

In the FOSS world, nobody is entitled to a pony.

Also it's rather ironic that it's an OpenBSD developer wanting this, considering http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-consid... - how does that reasoning not apply to compilers?

[1] including of course the all-important Motorola 88k back-end!

[2] with very few exceptions: RHEL, SLES

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Re:Compilers in OpenBSD (2013) by tedunangst on Sunday April 05, 2015 @08:58AM (#9323909)
Miod and I have different opinions. Anyway, what I think Miod really wants is a compiler free from regressions. Unfortunately, new compiler versions tend to introduce at least as many regressions as bug fixes.
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Re:Compilers in OpenBSD (2013) by JoelJacobson on Sunday April 05, 2015 @08:13AM (#9323821)
That's not true for all open source projects. Look at PostgreSQL for instance, they back-patch all bugfixes (where possible) to all of the previous supported major versions.
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