On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:23:21AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Apache httpd and KDE are very interesting examples. Both KDE and > Apache httpd integrate with Subversion, on two levels: KDE has > Subversion client support, Apache httpd has server support. And > Subversion is implemented using apr (the Apache Portable Runtime > library). > > So unless we start building Subversion twice, once for use with > Apache httpd, and once for use within KDE, modules containing KDE > and Apache httpd will have to agree on the same version of > Subversion and the same version of apr. To cut down support > overhead, we'd probably want them to use the same versions, too, but > this might not always be possible (e.g., newer upstream versions may > have obliterate support, which would be considered an important > server-side feature, but also change the working copy format, which > would not be acceptable for a stable desktop release).
Thanks, Florian - that's a great example. This is an area where Fedora, in our well-meaning attempt to integrate everything, has hobbled ourselves compared to more focused distributions. A project like Solus can focus on just the desktop case and doesn't have to care about Apache as an actual server; a server-only distro can make the opposite choice. In Fedora right now, someone has to lose. Modularity gives us flexibility to make a different decision on a case-by-case basis. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
