Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > I just don't get why any sane person, especially anyone familiar with > computer languages, would ever want to give something that is not the > same the same name. Does anyone know how the developer(s) manage this > themselves? I have to think they are keeping multiple concurrent > versions installed (and that that is the only reasonable approach). You mean like C? There was plain K&R C, then futzing around with lint, then several popular C extensions, then along came ANSI C (C89), then C99; all the while there were all sorts of "interesting" GCC extensions included, changed, retracted, added in the standard or replaced in it by a completely different way of doing the same thing... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
