"Telling 10-20000 users that their core bit of infrastructure is insecure and not fixable is not a tenable position"

Posted Nov 23, 2024 10:00 UTC (Sat) by tchernobog (guest, #73595)
In reply to: "Telling 10-20000 users that their core bit of infrastructure is insecure and not fixable is not a tenable position" by tux3
Parent article: NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git

Also, can't a small proprietary platform just keep using an old version of git, and add security patches on top? A lot of these people still use LTS toolchain with enterprise support.

There sure is a market for enterprise support to a git LTS version.

The financial sector uses ancient toolchains anywy, and have deep pockets by definition.

Do they really need the extra speed and extra features at this point?