Hi, It's that time again! Fedora Core 4 no longer installs the compat-libstdc++ package by default, meaning that any users who install or run a C++ app which was built using GCC 3.3 or lower is now greeted with an incomprehensible and unhelpful error (or nothing, if they use the GUI). C++ is used by a lot of games and other commercial apps. Virtually none use the new C++ DSO version. Many never will. The release notes talk repeatedly about the "solid platform" that GCC 4 brings: this must be some new use of the word platform I have not yet encountered as to me the word platform implies some measure stability. This sort of thing crops up with every Fedora release. The message now, as then, is simple: this gratuitous and unnecessary breakage of backwards compatibility must end. If it does not all the work GNOME and the rest of the Fedora desktop team is putting in will be wasted - a usable desktop that falls flat on its face the moment you leave the CD set behind is not usable in the real world at all. Please, save the usual replies. I know some here think any packages not used within the distribution should be dropped. I know some don't care about games (even the open source ones). I don't want to hear it - Fedora is not the universe, and if it wishes to be taken seriously should not pretend to be. thanks -mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
