[clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.104.0 Release Candidate is here!

[Paul Kosinski]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:35:29 -0400
"Rick Cooper" <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:

> And what, exactly, is the reason for moving to cmake? I am sure you know
> it's going to be problematic for thousands of people so I am curious what
> tremendous gain of speed, size, memory usage or seciurity the other users
> get from this change, or if it's just a convenience thing for the
> developers?


I get the impression that *all* recent software development (at least in Open Source) has given up any notion of backward compatibility. For example, Firefox (even ESR) has been a disaster in the past few years, changing the UI with every major release, once totally blowing away users' bookmarks, and of course, completely invalidating many, many years of add-on development by many people due to switching from XUL to the less powerful WebExtensions.

Now I wonder what will happen when I next try to build ClamAV on my three different Debian systems (7, 8 & 10).