-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/2013 08:30 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 28. 3. 2013 at 12:59:44, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> Dne 28.3.2013 12:09, Florian Festi napsal(a): >>> This is done to make life easier for package maintainers. >> >> Sorry, you definitely not speak for me! This are just excuses. >> And I asked already several times to have some way to reliable >> support multiple version of packages without mangling their >> names. > > Víťo, I certainly understand your frustration, as it comes from > talking about this topic over and over again. However Ruby > community is a *very* special case in this regard and I'd like to > treat it as such. > > If you want, we can start a discussion here. But if we do, let's > keep the discussion strictly constructive and just about > *technical* problems. Let's not take this to design level of > things, as Ruby and Fedora are two completely different worlds that > will never be fully compatible by design. Therefore the final > solution (if there is any) has to be some sort of compromise. > It's not just Ruby that has these issues, though. To take a python example: Django. Most Django packages are built against a specific minor version of Django, and the Django upstream regularly breaks backwards compatibility with those minor releases. It ends up requiring Fedora to carry multiple copies of python-django in the repo, usually versioning the older ones (so in the current situation, we have python-django and python-django14, with python-django referring to Django 1.5) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFUOBoACgkQeiVVYja6o6OZGACfcRr2jl7WhhOFlrjK/zX5yHsZ a8UAn1V0FdOQmQGI3d7G3J7lSqZs0ywn =Gov+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
