On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:47 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote : > > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 21:06 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:15:09AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > > > > > > * Working hard to get lesstif in and openmotif out before FC-6. > > > > > > lesstif is built in fedora extras now. > > > > > > We can start rebuilding against lesstif now, but I don't think we should > > > remove openmotif hastily. The devel packages conflict but the packages > > > that contain the libs don't conflict. So a user that want to build his > > > own apps against openmotif can do it, and the libs are available for > > > linking even if lesstif is used to build. > > A fact, I consider to be a fault of FE QA and bad design of yours. > > > > You should have packaged lesstif in such a way both openmotif-devel and > > lesstif-devel can be installed in parallel. > > If lesstif is to be considered a straight drop-in replacement for > openmotif, Lesstif isn't a drop-in replacement. It tries to clone the OpenMotif API, but it isn't ABI nor 100% API compatible. I.e. packaging-wise Pertusus is not replacing OpenMotif with something compatible, he is removing one package and adding a new (incompatible) one instead. > then I don't really see why this is a fault or a bad design. > Here, packagers will just need to s/openmotif-devel/lesstif-devel/ and > have their application link against lesstif. ... until they hit a behavioral difference, or a bug in lesstif ... > No further changes > required is something I'd consider positive (i.e. no need to force an > include or library path for motif). Furthermore, since the idea is to > completely drop openmotif ASAP, this is really a low priority (almost > 'non') issue IMHO. To me, OpenMotif is one of the foundations of my work. Petusus has just kicked my work off from Fedora and rendered Fedora into a platform not worth to be considered for a part of my work in future. So be it :) Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
