Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Assume that your own application will take around a year to write/test
>> before deployment.  Do you wait to start that work until after the
>> release of the OS and libraries you will be using, develop on something
>> you know is wildly different, or do you try to use something as close as
>> possible, knowing that backwards compatibility isn't taken very
>> seriously in the Linux kernel and distribution world?
>>
> At last, we get to the real problem - You want to develop for the
> next release of RHEL, but Fedora is changing to fast for you to be
> able use Fedora for that.

No, I have no problem with Fedora being used for testing and development 
in any situation where being down for inderminate amounts of of time or 
doing without security updates is acceptable.  You are taking what I 
said way out of context.

> So you want Fedora development to change
> to allow you to do that. Otherwise it is too much work to develop
> your project. It must not be a user-space application, because there
> you find things like compat libraries.

Sometimes, sometimes not.  Suppose you had developed something as an 
add-on to CIPE tunnels on the RHEL3/kernel 2.4.  There's no concession 
to backwards compatibility on RHEL4 and later.

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    Les Mikesell
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