Is this information manually maintained? It might honestly be nicer to see if you can locate the primary source for these projects and just iframe in that authoritative document to avoid running the risk of being out of date.
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#12I repeatedly google this stuff en mass and thought a community-managed website would be a really great so thank you for saving me loads of effort! I'll be PR-ing a bunch of stuff to help out ;) It may be worth adding a per-version EOL cell, and potential caveats. Windows operating systems, for example, can receive paid support if you happen to have a billion dollars laying around. Edit: By per-version EOL cell, I mea…
My pet peeve is Python specifically. They have a PEP per release which basically tells you what all will become EOL on this release, which is very confusing.
And they also list unsupported releases on the main download page.
Can you clarify on the “release cell” part? Not sure what you mean by that.
I get you on the Windows part. It took me quite some time to figure out what all is even possible. The Windows page definitely needs a disclaimer.
Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything
#13Suggestion: Relative dates are nice ("1 year and 7 months"), but I'd have an easier time reading it with absolute dates as well ("2019-12-34").
It is already there on hover, but maybe a site-wide dropdown would help.
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#14Suggestion: Relative dates are nice ("1 year and 7 months"), but I'd have an easier time reading it with absolute dates as well ("2019-12-34").
You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)
Some pages have that, and some don't. The iPhone page doesn't have absolute dates as titles, for example.
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#15Is this information manually maintained? It might honestly be nicer to see if you can locate the primary source for these projects and just iframe in that authoritative document to avoid running the risk of being out of date.
The metadata isn’t hard to maintain (only the Latest Release field changes often). And I made this because the authoritative source are very often confusing with no clear dates.
PHP supported release page is great for eg, but Python is a mess.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)
It'd still be nice to not have this tied to hover, relative dates are more useful to get a gist of how long you've got - those absolute dates are usually what you need to sell it to management.
I started with absolute dates, but my primary use-case is “How much time do I have?”, for which relative dates work better.
I’ll see if I can do better.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)
Some pages have that, and some don't. The iPhone page doesn't have absolute dates as titles, for example.
iPhones don’t have EOL vs Support dates, so I had to hack around it for the release. Will fix soon.
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#18Is this information manually maintained? It might honestly be nicer to see if you can locate the primary source for these projects and just iframe in that authoritative document to avoid running the risk of being out of date.
The metadata isn’t hard to maintain (only the Latest Release field changes often). And I made this because the authoritative source are very often confusing with no clear dates. PHP supported release page is great for eg, but Python is a mess.
As a dev working primarily in PHP I hear all you're saying, but am mostly just enjoying the PHP > Python moment ;P
That's good to hear, as I sort of said, my primary concern for EOLs is that they have been known to change over time and when they do I'd like to be sure the source I'm relying on is tracking those changes.
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#19The RHEL page is mostly useless... it only has RHEL 8 which won't EOL for a while. What we really need are RHEL 6 and 7; 7 won't EOL for some time.
Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything
#20I recently did a rant on twitter[0] on how release/download pages of various languages/tools get it wrong, especially with respect to giving EoL Dates/policy and a list of supported releases. This is my attempt at solving the problem. If you have to every check the EoL date of anything, or if you have to verify that the version you have is supported, just visit endoflife.date/toolname. The website runs on Netlify, an…
If I add Fedora, Ruby, and a few other things will you accept the PR (assuming it's good of course. I just don't want to waste my time if you are already happy with the current list and don't want any more)?