On 04/03/2013 12:58 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > The only thing you get wrong is that you take a look at Fedora packages > and do some statistics. You don't see the packages which could be in > Fedora if RPM/YUM would do better job. > > Just as an example, I guess everybody would welcome Redmine [1] in > Fedora (you can substitute GitLab [2] or Aeolus [3] for Redmine if you > like). It was not possible to do so for several releases of Fedora, > since Redmine was using Ruby on Rails 2.3 where in Fedora, there was > Ruby on Rails 3.x. If we would like to move to Ruby on Rails 4 in Fedora > as soon as they'll be releases, we will have actually two options (1) > forget about the upgrade of Ruby on Rails in Fedora and wait for > upstream or possible become upstream, to help with migration of the > project (2) break Redmine and every application which is using Ruby on > Rails in Fedora. Neither of these options are good options. So the > easiest solution is to not have Redmine in Fedora at all. > > So now, please, could you count also the cost of missed opportunities? I have some difficulties believing that the only reason for this is that the name "rubygem-rails" was already taken. May be you can elaborate a bit more why getting Rails 2.3 into Fedora would have been fundamentally easier if the name was still available? Florian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
