picking the best option from similar packages

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Fri Mar 4 19:47:52 UTC 2005


Hi -

hp wrote:

> [...]
> > enscript - updated 2 yrs ago
> > a2ps - updated 5yrs ago.
> > [...]
> Doesn't 2 vs. 5 years seem sort of academic? Degrees of deadness. ;-)

Indeed.  But really, we should not assume that a long-unmodified piece
of software is abandoned in a pejorative sense.  It may simply be
complete, mature, and of that rare variant of software that has few
bugs.  I think they call it "finished". :-)

- FChE
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