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title: CD or CDs
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date: 2024-12-21
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permalink: daily/2024/12/21/cd
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- software-development
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What if we still released software by burning every version to a physical disk and distributed it around the world?
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This week, I re-watched Revolution OS - a 2001 documentary about the history of Linux, open source and the free software movement.
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I was also explaining to my son about how software used to be distributed on CD-ROMs.
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This got me thinking.
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What if we still primarily distributed software on physical media like CD-ROMs?
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What if every release to your software project had to be burned to a disc, transported and inserted into a server to be installed.
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This may take days or weeks instead of seconds or minutes.
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Once a version is distributed, it isn't quick or easy to fix a bug or release a feature.
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You can't simply update the version on every CD that was distributed with some hardware or attached to a computing magazine.
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How would you change writing software if you worked this way?
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