Bill Hacker wrote:
And then wrote...turn on the Linux-binaries interface in FreeBSD in nearly two years now,
and suspect that moving a build/tarball/RPM from *BSD back to Linux
would be at least as easy as the reverse...
A) 'Taint *about* "stability" - it is about choice of a common-meet-point that is somewhat less of a moving-target. The Linices dynamism is both virtue and vice from a distribution-of-common-code wiewpoint.
So... what I'm hearing when I read "A)" is that, developing on a Linux distrib is tougher because it's a "moving target", which I'm taking to mean that the API's are more in flux or something like that.
Not what I siad or what I implied.
Don't know if it is true or not.
Might be an advantage, even... ... to the developer. But not to the porter.
What I meant was that the large number of Linux distros have an inherently greater probability of departing from some semblance of commonality.
The *BSD's are fewer, do differ, but their prime-movers can and do communicate effectively to reduce problems of presenting surprises to a source build.
- And as a *BSD release is the entire 'world' - not just the kernel - it is inherently clear - for better or for worse - exactly what is in or not in the environment of a given release. And that is documented.
- is that practical with 100+ Linux 'distro's'......???
Yet, originally, you said that it should be just as easy to port from BSD to Linux as it is to go from Linux to BSD.
Probably easier.
I think it's pretty unlikely that both of these statements can be simultaneously true.
Well - I would agree that the *extrapolation you made* does seem paradoxical..<G>
At which point we are *way* off courier-mta topic......
And should take it offline....
Bill
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