On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:20:01AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Joe Orton] > > Yes, APR could detect system features at run-time, and yes, doing so > > would be a complete maintenance nightmare having a small net negative > > run-time cost to 99% of users, and no, it's not worth doing. > > So in your opinion, which of these two options should we have gone with > instead?
I'd have done exactly as you did. But the rest of the world does not exist under the specific constraints which Debian does; what's right for Debian is not necessarily right for upstream. (I'm not trying to be anti-Debian here; s/Debian/Fedora/ above is equally true, along with anybody else distributing binaries) joe
