← Back to context Comment by mort96 2 days ago How much ongoing development effort do you think goes into, say, something like a gzip encoder? 2 comments mort96 Reply yxhuvud 1 day ago A gzip encoder has no business deciding whether a socket should wait to fill up packets, however. The list of relevant applications and libraries gets a lot shorter with that restriction. mort96 10 hours ago It was a response to the sentiment expressed in:> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them?Software can have value even when not maintained.
yxhuvud 1 day ago A gzip encoder has no business deciding whether a socket should wait to fill up packets, however. The list of relevant applications and libraries gets a lot shorter with that restriction. mort96 10 hours ago It was a response to the sentiment expressed in:> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them?Software can have value even when not maintained.
mort96 10 hours ago It was a response to the sentiment expressed in:> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them?Software can have value even when not maintained.
A gzip encoder has no business deciding whether a socket should wait to fill up packets, however. The list of relevant applications and libraries gets a lot shorter with that restriction.
It was a response to the sentiment expressed in:
> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them?
Software can have value even when not maintained.