At 12:37 PM 3/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I just had a conversation with a software engineer at a company we are
>getting ready to purchase a peice of server software from. While talking
>the obvious question came up "Do you support Linux?" He responded with
>something I find very interesting, and at the same time valid. He said
>"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. Libraries are
>different between distributions, kernel versions are so varied and change
>so drastically from version to version. Its just hard to keep a stable
>product running for everyone."
[snip]
>Am I just overreacting or does anyone agree?
It seems to me that one workable alternative would be to release the
product with shrouded source. That way, the ISV could release patches,
RPMs, etc. to allow users to compile for different distributions, and they
wouldn't have to worry too much about people modifying their code.
just my 2 cents
David Wollmann
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