[Fedora-packaging] Re: paragraph on shipping static numerical libs

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon May 28 12:12:38 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:10 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:54:33PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Most of these guys are just beginners to everything but
> > "algorithms", which to them means "math".
> > 
> > They never heard nor thought about "sockets", "ipc", i18n, threading,
> > ABIs/APIs, system-integration, ... etc.
> 
> Ehm, I'm not sure what you are describing, ipc is a very big deal
> especially cross-processor-wise. Threading? mpi/openmp was developed
> out of these group's needs.
> 
> > > Anyway, we're getting off-topic, the facts are that there are camps
> > > that rightfully use static libs a lot. Either Fedora cares about these
> > > camps, or they are considered a minority to not really cater for their
> > > needs.
> > IMO, this is not a matter of "minorities" nor of demands. I feel this to
> > be a matter of "limitation of knowledge" trying to push their mistakes
> > into the distro.
> 
> I think the lack of knowledge is perhaps on the other side of the
> fence.
Now that's arrogant - PLONK.

Ralf






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