This is ridiculous. The amount of entitlement I'm reading here is gross. This is how you burn out maintainers and drive them away from open source.

> Your downstream should be precious.

No. Every open source maintainer is free to decide for themselves how much or how little they are willing to bend over backward for the sake of serving all possible user needs. If you don't like that, then feel free to build whatever you need yourself, from scratch.

Edit: darn, it broke

Is my downstream paying me for the maintenance ?

If not, downstream may maintain mold2 themselves forever because their _extremely specific_ use case is neither a promise nor a valuable thing for mold to maintain. Debian understood this a while ago and isn't whining when they have to maintain their own fork. Maintainers maintain.

If enough downstreamers are unhappy about choices, they are also welcome to fork, until the base project is abandoned. Or they realize their usecases are extremely narrow.

(In addition, it's an extremely hypocritical and purist demand, because I am pretty certain that their distribution has, at some point, an arbitrary executable to make a compiler from. So they're probably okay with blobs, just not that one in particular.)

Yeah, for stuff we wanna rely on, this should ideally be the default. I'd go one step further and say no breaking changes past 1.0.0 at all. Instead people should favor creating entirely new projects (forks or not) and jump over to those, leaving the old one behind, if they want to do massive changes to something.

Of course, no one would be forced to do this, but it feels like if more did this, long-term supporting stuff that depends on those things would be a lot easier, if things could just be instead of changing under our feet all the time. Thank god for Nix and NixOS, even with their warts.