At 12:37 PM 3/13/98 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"We DID, but over time we found developing for linux was like shooting
>at a moving target. People have so many different configurations, and
>the differences go much deeper than just surface changes.
<SNIP>
>itself in its own foot? My reply is no, just tell software vendors to
>support redhat not just linux in general. It is well maintained and
Nooo.. Isn't that the beginning of the end? Also, doesn't this problem
arise only with binary distributions?? If these people released source code
distributions they'd be useable on all Linux distros.
Of course there are, maybe, commercial reasons not to release code. Fair
enough, but the solution is not to require this or that distro. Rather,
declare some standards, e.g. "Linux multimedia standard v1.1" which
specifies certain versions of the graphics libs, certain versions of
toolkits and sound drivers and so on.
This abstraction layer will allow Linux distros to say 'ACMELinux 5.0 supports
Linux Script Standard v2.1, Linux Network Standard v3.0, and Linux
Multimedia Standard v2.0.5'
In return, Vendors will say 'Requires Linux Network Standard v1.6 or
greater' and so on.
For example, the Linux Script Standard v2.1 might be defined as
"Perl 5.005, Python version whatever, TCL version xyz + TK version yzx,
plus the ACME Python sysutils library version 2"
Whta do you all think?
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