This bizarre measure of software, that it needs to constantly be getting new releases and be under constant change is ridiculous. Good things are stable enough that they don't require 900 tiny releases. This is often a good measure of mature software, the fact that it doesn't change endlessly.
How often does `rxvt-unicode` change?
It's a TERMINAL, folks.
A software package I use which needs constant maintenance is abandoned once. Now, new people are trying to keep things running and I'm trying to help as much as I can. We still can't reach the original developer. We know he's alive, but, he's not responding to anything.
On the other hand, there are software packages which only get maintenance love (i.e. bug fixes and minimal effort to keep it running on newer systems), or just sit there (i.e. vbindiff, with initial commit 32 years ago and last commit 9 years ago). I'm fine either way.
In short: I don't care about the project, I care about people behind it to be in good shape. I don't even use Ghostty. I'm a Konsole guy.
Well, "needs" is strong, but I do like releases, at least if there is good QA done before the release.
Do you like releases specifically? As in the process of downloading and installing an update? I mean I agree, it is indeed satisfying to watch progress bar and feel you’re getting something new in “about 14 minutes (10.2 MB/s)”. /srs
But rationally, we want new features (which is a somewhat finite resource for a terminal emulator) and bugfixes (which only happen if there are bugs). It’s okay for an app to receive no updates if v1.0.6 from 2012 is still working fine.