On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:25 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday, June 20, 2020 4:42:17 AM MST Neal Gompa wrote: > > TL;DR benefits of modularity for Fedora: > > > > * Automating build chains for producing artifacts > > * Straightforward mechanism of producing non-rpm artifacts using our > > existing tooling (modules -> flatpaks/containers/etc.) > > Both of these have nothing to do with Modularity, and can be done with > existing RPMs. > They have everything to do with Modularity, because that layer is where that stuff was implemented. Modularity was the result of the efforts involved with Factory 2.0, which gave us a lot of improvements in our build infrastructure tooling for the first time since 2007. Most of that rolled out in 2017, a full ten years after the last revamp of our infrastructure. > > * Path to provide alternative versions of stacks that don't natively > > multiversion (Nodejs, Perl, PHP, etc.) > > Modularity doesn't support installing multiple versions of the same software. > It's one of the key issues with the tech. > Modules can be designed to be parallel installable if the underlying software natively supports that. For example, Python works that way now, and thus in RHEL there are parallel versions of Python shipped as modules. It doesn't change the nature of the software. But it makes it easier to make multiple complete, yet conflicting, collections of a language stack. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
