On 7 September 2010 14:11, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > okay - I'll bite - why do we want to make it less distro-specific? For the same reason as pirut and pup were replaced. Fedora is *not* a big enough ecosystem to drive fully localized and feature rich user experiences. Working with other distros mean we can work as one big team and share the burden of translation, bug-fixes and writing new common code. I certainly don't want to write software for Fedora, but rather write software for Linux, and then write the small amount of Fedora interface code. > What does it get us? It means we have to deal with a bunch of > Lowest-common-denominator issues and it means a looser coupling of the > tools we have. Sure, I understand where you're coming from. As you see from app-install schema version 1 it really was least common denominator. But version 2, which is in progress now, features application screenshot previews (that ubuntu wanted) and application ratings (which we all wanted). Having an extensible format allows us to add the features in a cross-distro way without re-inventing schemas and UI. > It is legit to write tools for fedora that are FOR fedora. Why not do > that? Of course it's legitimate to do so. I just don't think it's a very sustainable or responsible way to write software. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
