Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

[Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Otto Haliburton wrote:

>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Bret Hughes
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:49 AM
> > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:32, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Otto Haliburton wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I don't know where you been bud.  One of the complaints is that linux
> > > >        
> > is for
> >    
> >
> > > > programmers and tech people and not for the masses cause you need
> > > >        
> > someone of
> >    
> >
> > > > a technical frame to fix it cause it breaks everything.  So grow up to
> > > > reality.  Acceptance into the wide community requires that it works
> > > >        
> > out of
> >    
> >
> > > > the box for everyone and you don't need a technical person to get it
> > > >        
> > to
> >    
> >
> > > > work. Get your facts straight, people of a technical nature accept it
> > > >        
> > but it
> >    
> >
> > > > ain't number one.
> > > >        
> > > Who are these non-technical people who are concerned about mixing
> > > objects from different versions of the g++ compiler?
> > >
> > >      
> > LOL
> >
> > Bret
> >
> >
> >    
> The above attitude is the one that causes people to worry about using linux
> period.  Look at this way, you decide to drop Microsoft and go to linux, for
> whatever reasons.  You get there and decide to use version 7.3 and build
> your apps using the default compiler that comes with 7.3.  You get
> everything working with some effort.  Some A.H. comes along and says you
> ought to upgrade to version 9 and you do and get the default compiler with
> that version and in order to take advantage of the new version you rebuild
> all of your apps and they neither compile and definitely won't run.  This is
> the non-technical person that does that.  He did it all the time with the
> other OS (MS), but this new and great OS doesn't allow him to do something
> simple without causing him grief.  That's the problem that RH has faced with
> open source and it is the reason that large numbers of common users will not
> make the switch.
>  
I agree with much of what you say, but:

I don't think compatibility between releases can be used as an argument 
for using MS Windows instead of Linux. MS is known to be notorious when 
it comes to requiring users to upgrade *everything* when a new OS 
version is released (the "95" in Windows 95 was the number of existing 
programs that would actually work, or the percentage that didn't, 
remember...) In fact, this is why I get especially annoyed when I see 
similar things on Linux; I particularily dislike it when I see something 
that reminds me of some of the worst sides of Windows.


- Toralf



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