Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

Jean-Rene Cormier jrc at jrcormier.com
Thu Jul 27 18:53:42 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 00:04 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:37:22 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote:
> >> This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a
> >> major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or
> >> gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...
> >
> >And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development 
> >Platform.  That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be.  That's a far 
> >better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long 
> >lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates.  
> >Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things 
> >can and do churn, change, and sometimes break.
> 
> So does this mean objective number 4 should be removed from the
> Objectives of the Fedora Project page?
> 
> "Provide a robust development platform for building software,
> particularly open source software."
> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html

Then again if you are using FC5 as a major development platform for your
own Xorg-based application wouldn't you want your code to work with the
latest version of Xorg?

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Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com>




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