On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 25.10.2012 01:09, schrieb Alan Evans: >> Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to >> keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least >> to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of >> ABI compatibility. >> >> Witness VMWare basically recompiling itself every time the user >> updates his kernel. No game developer wants that kind of headache You seem to have missed my mea culpa about using the kernel as an example, but... > you can not compare KERNEL modules with userland software I can if userland suffers from the same kind of problems, which was my point. "Failed to load application foo because library bar-1.12.5.0 was not found." Checking my libs directory, I see that I have bar-1.12.5.7. So I make a symbolic link and hope for the best, but no: Program foo now segfaults because the libbar devs changed some function prototype. And it was doomed to fail anyway because my distro ships libbar with CONFIG_GARBUNDING_GRABULATORS=off when it was compiled. > VMware itself does NOT recompile itself > simply because it is a binary > only the kernel-modules are source I didn't say that it recompiled *all* of itself. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
