On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:17 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote: > On 6/26/05, Paul Iadonisi <pri.rhl4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > I, for one, prefer Fedora to move forward, getting rid of old, crufty > > compat-* packages giving low priority to those who don't want to adapt > > their apps to Fedora's fast moving pace. *You* may not take Fedora > > seriously. I don't need backwards compat cruft for *me* to take it > > seriously. Even with being considered for the 'hobbyist, enthusiast, > > developer.' > > Is gcc 3.3 old and crutfy? Wow. 1 year ago?. Well, this compat > breaking from gcc people plus non "old and crutfy" support on distros > is making C++ (and gtkmm) a non possible platform for ISV's making > software for Linux. This wouldn't be a problem if the C++ people stopped breaking the C++ ABI every single release. > And ISV don't have resources to package their > application for every Linux distro, setting up repositories, etc... > They just want to put a package and allow people to download it and > install it easily. > > We have very few ISV making software for linux now, because we have > very few desktop share, but this is changing... -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
