On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 08:04:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This doesn't have to be. It is possible to write libraries, even very > complex ones, with endless backwards compatibility. It's what libvirt > does. And the kernel (almost always). > > In fact I'd say breaking your ABI contract continuously is another > lazy, poor programming practice.
We just plain don't have the clout to use inclusion in Fedora as a lever to fix this. And I don't see the benefit to Fedora in excluding software which uses them from the Fedora universe. I mean, if we insisted on perfection, the distribution would consist solely of software written personally by Donald Knuth. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
