Excuse the off topic post, but... ;)
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
> Now, maybe this is not the appropriate list for the question, but I can't
> get latest gnome working because of the infamous __register_frame_info crap,
> and moving to the glib 2.1 will cause other problems. The status of system
> libraris in Linux is becoming a MESS. Even when thing work, I hate being
Don't upgrade then, let someone else test the cutting edge stuff. The
point of linux is that you have choise. In the commerical OS world, you
never see the new libraries, until after the commerical application
developers and OS developer have tested things.
In linux commerical distributions with commerical support, provide this to
commerical requirements.
> The JDK is a good example of problems that will become more and more common.
> We can't get the sources (at least right now), so the binary-only
> distribution must be bulletproof and work on a wide range of installation.
I guess this is a good line for supporting OSS.
> produce a more stable and compatible system. In the current creature, the
> kernel-hand doesn't know what the C-hand does, the C-hand doesn't know what
> the X11-hand does and so on, and everybody releases updates of their thing
This is IMHO is the free/open source (software 8) world's strenght. Not
tried down by one group's (BG anyone) vision of the world.
Distribution development, just by it scalar is bound to run into problems
like this. But then it's your choise where or not to be on the cutting
edge.
Nicholas
--
"I reserve the right to contradict myself"
Nicholas Lee (Li Peng Ming) n.j.lee at statslab.cam.ac in uk
Somewhere Out There
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