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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 1 Mar 2025 05:05:50 GMT
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:02:07 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 2/28/25 9:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:35:00 -0800, John Ames wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:30:51 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> In any piece of Free software, such a limitation would sooner or
>>>>>> later be seen as a bug, and a patch would be available to fix it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ristretto is ~18 years old by now, and there's still no option to
>>>>> disable its Windows Picture & Fax Viewer-esque "index the whole
>>>>> directory on launch" behavior. There are multiple threads on r/xfce
>>>>> about the performance penalties this imposes when viewing images
>>>>> from large-ish directories.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously nobody cares. At least, nobody with any ability to offer a
>>>> fix.
>>>
>>> So your argument is that all problematic Free Software limitations get
>>> fixed, except for the ones that don't get fixed, which are, ipso
>>> facto,
>>> not problematic, even when they cause well-documented and
>>> oft-discussed problems?
>> 
>> I figure, if a problem affects something like 100 people, then one of
>> those 100 would have some programming skills to be able to offer a fix.
> 
> 
>    "Programming skills" ? More like one in 100,000 users.


I don't know what Ristretto is but I am familiar with bug fixes, Sometimes 
you look at a non-critical problem that affects few users, examine the 
possible fixes, realize it is a gigantic black pit filled with IEDs, and 
assign it a priority of 5 (which in our system meant 'when hell freezes 
over')

And that is for commercial software that people are paying money for... 
One of the problems with skilled programmers is they are adept at sniffing 
out rats.