2008/12/5 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> >> Is there not a subset of features which exist in both 2.5 and 3.0 >> which can be used in 2.6? >> > > Trivial code can work but I wouldn't bet on any applications (with all > their library dependencies) being able to work in both 2.5 and 3.0. > Some things are a lot of work: you can't easily deal with methods in the > stdlib changing between 2.x and 3.x except to write your own version or > either the 3.x or 2.x version. I'm sorry, I thought we were only discussing this in reference to apps/tools that are directly under Fedora's control. And that everything purely 3rd party would be built against 2.6 or 3.0 as deemed by upstream. If this is not the case, then I better understand the depth of the problem. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
