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How much ongoing development effort do you think goes into, say, something like a gzip encoder?




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.




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