On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:25:31PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Include the program into Fedora if it is generally useful. Don't worry about that, I package a lot, in Fedora or in private repos, but it doesn't make sense to package every code. For a personal case, numerical models are not to be packaged. > Or release new binaries with each new Fedora release (.fc6 package, .fc7 > package ...) > > That's the current rationale. Ok, but it is better if linking fails instead of having runtime issues. I don't want to recompile for the sake of recompiling. Not to mention that some compilation may be resource hungry. > This is also the reason why EDA vendors and whathaveyou proprietary > software tie their software to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). That > product has a slow release cycle and long support cycle and that's exactly > what someone packaging binary software wants. You have a use case in mind which is far from the general use case of libraries. As a side note, and unless I'm wrong on Centos 4 I get an ICE on some of my compilations, while at some points I could run the programs dynamically linked on fedora just fine on Centos (nowadays time it is not possible anymore and I compile statically, but at some point it was possible). > For a mainly source-recompile-based distro like Fedora, we can break the > ABI with each release and also happily do so :) Ok, but this should really be said explicitely somewhere. Maybe it is, but I never stumbled on it. Anyway Jakub proposed to use the soname to add this information, this seems more user-friendly to me. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
