Multilib Middle-Ground

[Les Mikesell]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:47:09PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  I'd like to think of distributions as having some editorial control over
>>> what they ship.  If someone writes crap you don't have to publish it. Or at
>>> least overlap old/new versions for a complete version run.
>> And a lot of the software in the open ecosystem is under heavy
>> development and do not need the backwards compatibility that you are
>> expressing a need for for your in-house code.  If we used editoral
> 
> I don't think it is true. The truce is that many developers are
> ignorant about ABI/API compatibility and don't even try to design API
> sanely. Now this could be optimal in some sense, given that it is not a
> very fun work, but the 'heavy development' is not the reason.

I don't think most people understand it until there is a change in their 
own favorite tool or language that makes them go do all their work over 
again or track down obscure bugs because of a library regression that 
got by because nobody bothered to test the interfaces.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com