Leaving?

[Laurent Rineau]

On Friday 28 July 2006 17:26, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 11:21, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > If I extend your idea, FC-5 should exactly the same as FC-devel. A major
> > release of FC should avoid breaking things. The ABI-breaking updates
> > should be reserved for FC-devel and next major release (in that case
> > FC-6).
>
> Only the internal X abi is breaking, nothing that USES X breaks.  Please
> try again.

I was thinking about third-party modules for x.org-7.x. I see your point.

Please read my new mail "Fedora target audience, what about the research area? 
(was Re: Leaving?)", in the same thread. I have tried to explain the problem 
from some "institutional" users.

The same problem occurs with the kernel: ABI changes are usually internal to 
the kernel+libc. But there are third-party kernel modules, again.

In the mail I quote above, I try to explain why the ABI of shared library 
should be preserved during the life time of a major release of Fedora, as 
much as possible.