What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 6.12.2012 17:31, Seth Vidal napsal(a):
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> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote:
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>> The original use case for SCLs is to provide a way to deliver newer 
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>> of SW in stable distributions like RHEL/CentOS than those available 
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>> core system and make sure system packages and collection packages don't
>> collide in any way (names, libraries, system paths, ...).
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> right and the motivators for the above are customers/users who have to 
> deal with their developers complaining about wanting a 
> specific/newer/older/intermediate version of some language or another 
> and its modules.
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> they complain to their ops people, they complain to fedora/red hat.
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Oh common. You offended every developer on this ML. May be you should 
consider that it is not just about developers, but it is also about 
their management and customers who pays their bills.

In my previous job, we were developing application for our internal 
customer. During development, we were free to use any library which 
suited our needs. However, in some point, our customer was satisfied 
with functionality he had and he didn't want to spent any more money on 
development. Since that time, during maintenance, it was not any more my 
choice what library of what version I will use, since the system was 
built and running.

Now suddenly, after several years, the provider wants to quit their 
services and the application needs to be migrated. That would be perfect 
case for SC, because it would allow migration with lowest cost.

So what you would suggest? Was there any decision wrong in that process?


Vít