On 8/27/19 6:18 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > [email protected] writes: > >> 1. building appstores or repositories that can be used by different >> Linux distributions, comforming to different levels of LSB, and then >> populated by different apps devellopers, hopefully including big >> packages like gnome and kde, and possibly also packagers picking up >> sources, maybe even debian packagers. In this way even smaller distros >> could have a large set of packages, and developpers could have one place >> to address a lot of distros. This could be built for the different >> architectures including i386, amd64 and arm. > > This is a dying mechanism of software distribution.
Boy, I'm kind of sorry I fired this thing up now - it seems to have gotten a little testy in some corners. Let me just pull together a few sets of comments in short form (though those who know me know I'm not famous for "short") * open source (and more particularly the members of this list) people don't think LSB has much/any remaining value * the sorts of things LSB intended to solve are being solved with different mechanisms now * nobody that has commented that I'm aware of "speaks for" LF in an official sense; Ted likely comes the closest as he /was/ in an official capacity when changing times led to the "loss of interest" * the subscribers of this list do not have any authority to keep an ISO committee from proceeding with an effort they deem is important, but I think the message has been delivered that this group doesn't think it's a productive effort * Re: the mention of IoT: I've worked on a project which did get to the level of an ISO standard in tis space, and it had absolutely no need for LSB in the process (please see ISO 30118). regards, -- mats _______________________________________________ lsb-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss
