Thierry SAURA wrote: > It's nice to have up to date libraries but removing old ones > isn't a good idea for commercial applications : for example, opera 6.0 > needs qt2 and Websphere Studio Application Developper (WSAD) needs > libstdc++2.10.
They will break even if the compatibility libraries are there. (C++ ABI issues). These apps will be made gcc 3.x compliant very soon by their respective vendors since both Mandrake and RedHat are migrating to 3.x. > I think it's important for 9.0 to not break compatibility with this > type of application. It will and Mandrake will not be the only distro suffering from this in the short term. Just put off upgrading until the comercial vendors offer compliant products. This is not Mandrake's "fault", rather it is because of gcc. Irritating, yes, needed, yes. Greetings, Jaco
