Distributions

Posted Feb 13, 2025 8:55 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Distributions by leephillips
Parent article: New horizons for Julia

I use mutt, pandoc, and latex from Debian oldstable, and I find them useful. Of course they do not offer newer features, but that does not make the old versions useless. If you think that the current upstream version of mutt, pandoc, and latex are useful, why would they become useless in the future?

OTOH, the Debian package maims gforth by deleting the manual (they do not put it into non-free or something, they just do not distribute it at all). This makes Debian's Gforth distribution mostly useless without internet access; ok, not completely useless: It still can be used for building upstream Gforth from git (but there are frequent snapshot tarballs of upstream Gforth, so that benefit is small).