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On 10/25/2012 10:28 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>   I am getting SO sick and tired of this broken-ass software world
>> thinking that a package is "dead" just because it isn't crapping out
>> 48 new releases per year.
> 
> There's a middle ground between "too much churn" and "not enough
> development" though.

  Very true, I agree.  But I hear the above pretty much all the time,
mostly from the Linux crowd, "oh, XYZ is dead, it hasn't had a commit in
six months!" etc etc etc.

  I know it's rare for software, but maybe it's, you know, FINISHED.
That certainly doesn't mean it doesn't work.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA