On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:42 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:35 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:00 +0300, Nikolay Vladimirov wrote: > <snip> > > > The change just provides some backward compatibility. It's minimal. > > > I really think it's not important why the change was made. Since it > > > doesn't break anything and it doesn't waste disk space. It may be > > > useful for some dead opensource projects that use the older version. > > > > There are better ways to do this. Providing a compat-curl package is > > the proper way. The way it was done now is just a hack with the sole > > intention of making flash work again. > > A compat-curl project that would contain duplicated/unmaintained code? > What's the point of this since libcurl didn't break ABI, and only > changed soname? What's the point of adding it at all then? If the ABI didn't change, then apps can just rebuild against the newer libcurl. > This is getting a bit too far. I don't think it is. But if I'm overridden by FESCo, I won't continue to make a fuss. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
