Multilib Middle-Ground

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:05:45PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> >  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.
> 
> Perhaps a 'framework' initative inside fedora could end up helping to
> change how individual developers value the issue through as part of
> their mandate.  No matter how we describe it, its an uphill battle
> that has to include upstream developers or we aren't going to make
> backwards-compatibility bulletproof even for a well-defined subset of
> the fedora repository.

I was speaking about upstream maintainers myself. And honestly I don't
think that fedora is the right place to do this given what the average
contributor value. Doing in EPEL may be much easier for many reasons
(and you are perfectly right bringing changes in upstream is the issue 
here).

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Pat