Multilib Middle-Ground

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri May 2 21:58:06 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:47:09PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I'd like to think of distributions as having some editorial control over
> > what they ship.  If someone writes crap you don't have to publish it. Or at
> > least overlap old/new versions for a complete version run.
> 
> And a lot of the software in the open ecosystem is under heavy
> development and do not need the backwards compatibility that you are
> expressing a need for for your in-house code.  If we used editoral

I don't think it is true. The truce is that many developers are
ignorant about ABI/API compatibility and don't even try to design API
sanely. Now this could be optimal in some sense, given that it is not a
very fun work, but the 'heavy development' is not the reason.

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Pat




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