On 2/17/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: < But it is a waste of time and resources > if there is a more widespread use. I produce horribly bad scientific code for a living, and while not having static libs out of the box is an inconvience to what I do. I do not think Fedora should be catering to what is a systemicly broken model of code development which I and other casual scientific code writers participate in. When I use static libraries to do crappy code development I want to make very sure that the static libraries I use are a specific version.. i do not want and can not rely on static libraries from versions which may differ over time from the OS vendor. Having Fedora Extras provide static versions means Extras will be forced to supply compatibility versions of those static libraries forever to meet the needs of this highly technically skilled set of users that make up the scientific programming community. There are deeply systemic problems in the scientific coding practises that I participate in, and I don't want to see progressive projects bending policies to help rather smart people be even lazier about their coding habits. -jef"so very lazy"spaleta -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
