Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:47:09PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd like to think of distributions as having some editorial control over
what they ship. If someone writes crap you don't have to publish it. Or at
least overlap old/new versions for a complete version run.
And a lot of the software in the open ecosystem is under heavy
development and do not need the backwards compatibility that you are
expressing a need for for your in-house code. If we used editoral
I don't think it is true. The truce is that many developers are
ignorant about ABI/API compatibility and don't even try to design API
sanely. Now this could be optimal in some sense, given that it is not a
very fun work, but the 'heavy development' is not the reason.
I don't think most people understand it until there is a change in their
own favorite tool or language that makes them go do all their work over
again or track down obscure bugs because of a library regression that
got by because nobody bothered to test the interfaces.
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