Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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.