Re: Qualcomm cancels Windows dev kit PC

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:36:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

The *nix ecosystem also has thousands of “must have” applications, and
it is older than Windows or even MS-DOS. Yet it has evolved in a much
more graceful fashion.

MS has done their best to preserve backward compatibility. Others aren't
as reluctant to break stuff.

I upgraded my work Windows box to Python 3.13 Wednesday. For a quick and
dirty test I went into a project that used CherryPy.

https://docs.cherrypy.dev/en/latest/

It's old and doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Django (and
opinions) and has been overtaken by Flask. It didn't work. Deep in the
bowels of CherryPy there was a reference to 'cgi'. When they shook the
tree for 3.13 'cgi' fell out.

Fuck! After a little side expedition to StackExchange and other sites,

'python -m pip install legacy-cgi'

rescued the day.

I realize it's a trade between move fast and break stuff and being stuck
in the mud forever but there are trades. It caught up in the last release
but QGIS wasn't happy with 'Wayland only'. It worked for what I was doing
but it did warn some dialogs might not work correctly. iirc Qt6 was
delayed a bit while the maintainers tried to get it to play nice.

I've said it before but my production Linux box is boring old Debian
because i don't like surprises.