Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: LT Spice updates Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:13:59 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <66689c4b$0$3102244$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:14:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="271722aef9b4d1c32740cb20041bfcb3"; logging-data="1253860"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/EVIZnLT1ehYEVmbaXrLjo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:CfQQDbnqqbC77NN1jv8nFNBBwAc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <66689c4b$0$3102244$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Bytes: 1992 On 6/11/2024 11:49 AM, bitrex wrote: > I don't know if Marx ever said something like "Updaters are a tool of last > resort" IME the ratio of "Oh the update fixed something" to "Oh it broke > something that worked fine before" is about 1 to 3 You're thinking about it wrong. "The update CHANGED something." Whether that change moved the product into a more useful configuration is always subject to interpretation. [Personally, I eschew updates. I'd much prefer living with a set of problems that I know -- and can likely workaround -- than starting over with each new update (as there is no guarantee that ANYTHING is "unchanged"). The notable exception is FOSS products where *I* can examine the diff(1)s and convince myself of their consequences!]