ext Graham Cobb wrote:
Nokia
should be keeping all system libraries up to date and should be scheduling
testing, to verify that the updated libraries do not break anything, as part
of the release cycle. It is part of Nokia's responsibilities to its
development community.
Sure, and
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 13:32:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A properly versioned operating system should be able to handle side by
side libraries.
Why on earth bother? I am also not a DD but my understanding was that in
Debian this was only done when some ABI change occurs and means an
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Graham Cobb wrote:
To take a real example, I previously supported Opensync on mistral,
gregale, bora and chinook. I have already abandonned support for all
except chinook because it was too much effort to deal with the old glib
versions. For the moment I persevere
That said, to some extent people obviously do want to use
later versions of libraries when/where possible. No one
loves the idea of using code that's many years out of
date with its ever growing set of known bugs.
However sometimes bug-wise compatibility triumphs.
Graham Cobb wrote:
