Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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.