On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:23:21AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Apache httpd and KDE are very interesting examples. Both KDE and > > Apache httpd integrate with Subversion, on two levels: KDE has > > Subversion client support, Apache httpd has server support. And > > Subversion is implemented using apr (the Apache Portable Runtime > > library). > > > > So unless we start building Subversion twice, once for use with > > Apache httpd, and once for use within KDE, modules containing KDE > > and Apache httpd will have to agree on the same version of > > Subversion and the same version of apr. To cut down support > > overhead, we'd probably want them to use the same versions, too, but > > this might not always be possible (e.g., newer upstream versions may > > have obliterate support, which would be considered an important > > server-side feature, but also change the working copy format, which > > would not be acceptable for a stable desktop release). > > Thanks, Florian - that's a great example. This is an area where Fedora, > in our well-meaning attempt to integrate everything, has hobbled > ourselves compared to more focused distributions. A project like Solus > can focus on just the desktop case and doesn't have to care about > Apache as an actual server; a server-only distro can make the opposite > choice. In Fedora right now, someone has to lose. Modularity gives us > flexibility to make a different decision on a case-by-case basis. At this point modularity doesn't help with this at all. It doesn't solve problems when you want to have library with 2 variants. > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- -Igor Gnatenko _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
