On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, MHR wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Hugo van der Kooij
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems the recent debate with wxGTK shows an issue that is frequently
recurring.
Take wxGTK 2.8 for example. If you need 2.6 then having 2.8 intalled is
not going to help you.
While this may not be possible for all packages at least some of these
issues could be solved if at the time there is a version jump a backward
compatibility package is created.
Or better yet, a mandate that backwards compatibility be preserved
unless there is a really good, solid reason to break it, with
fundamental development packages like wxGTK and other library packages
that lots of other programs, applications and users depend on.
That is easy to do. Let's not do any work on the repository ! It also
helps with the 'reducing effort' and 'increase free time' conditions :)
Let's agree that whatever we change, the people that ask for it spend
their time doing it !
Who requested the compat-wxGTK package ?
I've been programming computers for a living for almost 29 years, and
I have yet to see a good reason for breaking backward compatibility in
software other than 1) the hardware platform is radically different,
or 2) moving from M$ to Linux, er, I mean, changing base OSs.
I have been packaging since 1998 for free. So what exactly is the lesson ?
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