Request for Review: libevent

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jun 6 16:47:51 UTC 2005


José Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>However... given that rpm 4.2 shipped way back with RH9, and the current
>>extras system doesn't support anything older than FC3, is this something
>>that should be done as standard? I personally like to maintain as much
>>backwards compatibility as possible, but many things in extras seem to
>>assume that things started with FC3. For instance, the perl module spec
>>template uses MODULE_COMPAT, which doesn't work with RH9 or older perls.
> 
> 
> Yes it does.  For RH8 and RH9 just install the package
> perl-forward-compat available in te fedora.us mirrors.

OK so I picked a bad example. The question remains though, how much 
backwards-compatibility should extras packages include? I expect it's 
mostly a decision for each package maintainer, but what should be (are?) 
the guidelines?

Paul.




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