On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > We have to have the courage to say what is part of the platform. > And once we commit to something, we have to live up to the expectations. > People *need* that to be able to build for Linux. It's essential. > There's no reason why we shouldn't do it. We do that for kernel. > We do it for glibc. And a bunch of others. But we need to do it for > more libs, we can't have in 2005 a platform made up of only some > basic libraries. We said GNOME is that platform -- we better live > up to our promise. "We do that for kernel." What? Where do we ship a 2.4 version kernel (and 2.2, and 2.0, etc.) in order to have FC work with applications that don't run with 2.6? The compat-gcc libraries are there, certainly, but "we do it for glibc?" compat-glibc wasn't included in even RedHat 9, so any old RedHat 6.x binaries using glibc2.1 are out of luck. (Of course, forget about old libc5 stuff.) RedHat 9 nuked compatibility with anything pre-Redhat 7.x. John Thacker
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