Denis Moreaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] > > My priority is to have free software working, not proprietary. If > > Raptor people want to have their game working with latest Linux > > distros, fine with me, they need to recompile with latest > > libraries. I'm not gonna do their job. > > Going that way is showing the way to the dustbin for the distrib at long > term... Yep ! A troll on Cooker ML ! It's been a long time :-). > We already have got plenty of closed source apps... and those who ported > them will probably not maintain them for years... > > - games : doom, quake, Unreal Tournement, raptor, all games by Loki,... If they need older libs I don't see any problem in putting in our "commercial" CD's (e.g. proprietary CD's ;p) older libs. People behind proprietary software can also recompile they stuff two times a year, for what it costs if it's correctly written... Or they can free up their source, also. [...] > As you can find in most distrib libc4 (a.out) and libc5, only for > binaries compatibility, it may be interesting to have such compatibility I can't see libc4 nor libc5 in our distro? Where did you find them? > libraries for other components (no need to have debug info and dev > libraries). The main thing is that it needs TIME to be maintained. I (only speaking for me -- as when I was writing "my priority is...") prefer spend my time on free software projects. I already have not enough time in a day for all the free software projects stuff I'd like to do :-). > Another reason is the case of a mixed network where some machines are > using older lib versions but some applications are shared by NFS > (/usr/local is often shared that way). Then you can use libs from the "some machines" isn't it? > And, I repeat, the goal is to help clueless beginners to run these "the" goal ? say "your" goal, or "the goal I'd like to see"... don't define our (or, better, my) goal as what you'd like to see, unilaterally :-). > applications... It's the kind of details that may make them flee and go > back to MS Windows... The ultimate argument :-). A sort of railgun as for me, forbidden, but so attractive :-). > By the way, if you don't want to have newbies using MDK, the easier way > to do it is to only install in Expert mode ;-) There is no obvious conection I can see between this and the previous question :-). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
