FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

[bruce]

if, as has been suggested, there are apps that don't work on FC4, that's to
be expected. takes time for apps to be rebuilt/tested and distributed to the
various distribution sites...

however, if three's a potential problem with FC4 regarding the gc compilers,
then that's a potential issue that really should be checked!! but then,
again, that's why you shouldn't go rushing head first to apply the
latest/greatest apps on systems that you really need to do work with!

but it really would be nice/good/etc.. to be able to go somewhere and see
what combinations of things have been tested/verified so you can get a feel
for what works/might not work/etc...

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:30 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support


On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:27, Richard Kelsch wrote:
> I still stand by my claim that FC4 fails
> the intentions of the project.  Nevertheless, I know it will be fixed
> eventually, perhaps FC5.

But you could bet that it would not be fixed if it wasn't released in
its current state so people could fix it.   That's the point of the
fedora releases - it is supposed to meet the usability intentions
by the *end* of a release, when the effort shifts to a new batch
of code and the updates to this one stop.  Since there are 3 prior
releases you can get a pretty good idea how this works by looking
back at the updates that made the other versions usable.

--
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at futuresource.com


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