[development] Drupal 4.5 unsupported

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:09:41PM +0200, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> >On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:24:57PM -0400, Khalid B wrote:
> >  
> >>>Why not keep them for historical purposes ?
> >>>Maybe create an "Archived releases" section somewhere and
> >>>keep them there ??
> >>>      
> >>They can always be checked out from the CVS repository using
> >>the DRUPAL-4-5 tag.
> >>    
> >
> >I understand they can be checked out. But why complicate things ?
> >  
> 
> Why offer things for download that a) are insecure to use and b) nobody 
> needs anymore?
> 

I agree that they are insecure, But sometimes you needn't care much about security.
What if I'm using it as an internal system for an office. And that system is not exposed ?
Is the security the main concern here ? Yes I'd still worry about security but I can
lower the priority of such thing.

I'd say that we keep it for historical purpose, It's the same why previous releases of
many FOSS software are kept.

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