On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 00:04 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > 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 Then again if you are using FC5 as a major development platform for your own Xorg-based application wouldn't you want your code to work with the latest version of Xorg? -- Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
