tor, 27 07 2006 kl. 00:04 -0400, skrev Gerald Henriksen: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:37:22 -0400, you wrote: > > >On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote: > >> This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a > >> major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or > >> gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way... > > > >And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development > >Platform. That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be. That's a far > >better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long > >lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates. > >Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things > >can and do churn, change, and sometimes break. > > So does this mean objective number 4 should be removed from the > Objectives of the Fedora Project page? > > "Provide a robust development platform for building software, > particularly open source software." > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html Not at all, Fedora is excellent for developing OSI compliant licensed software as stated by objective 4. I assume what Jesse meant was that if you plan of building an application where you can't take advantage of the community to provide updates to follow technology, say you are developing a proprietary piece of software it might be nice for you to use RHEL instead as that is ensured to stay completely API/ABI stable for 7 years as well as being supported by some of the finest people in technology today for a whole 7 years. Many things in Fedora have their own ABI/API stability requirements though, if you are working on GNOME or KDE you should be able to carry it across Fedora releases with very little if any effort due those projects goals and requirements. - David Nielsen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
