Programmers working alone often fall into comfortable but brittle habits such as thinking that what is easy for them must be easy for you. That if they tell you what they would do, then that is what you SHOULD do. For instance:

Also, this is the new beta version of ElfData, and some function name changes have occurred, for clarities sake. While this new test project should run… your old ElfData projects will need some source find and replacement to run, but very little thankfully.

Notice that he makes a function name change, and thinks that by telling us this, that we should then be able to change our code. This comes from an add-on market for a development tool. A very small and declining add-on market.

Of course, he is correct. Armed with this information we can change our code. But like the Y2K solution, of just change your code, this too assumes a small amount of code change. And that we are willing to absorb the cost of the effort.

Of course if Microsoft were to make the same suggestion the above developer would be shouting foul monopoly. As would the other programmers he sells code to. I would, and have.