<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Kevin Kofler </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at" target="_blank">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">drago01 wrote:<br>
> They might compile something and send it to someone that happens to<br>
> use a different distro ...<br>
<br>
</span>… which 99% of the time will not work anyway no matter what we do because<br>
glibc has only one-way compatibility and our glibc is newer than almost any<br>
other distro's. So trying to support that use case is not useful at all.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Kevin Kofler<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">While that may be true immediately upon release, it doesn't remain that way for very long. Distributions like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch, and distributions that release at the same time or after we do (upcoming Mageia 6, Ubuntu 15.10, etc.) would have compatibility with us.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">We shouldn't make things worse for people if we don't have to.</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!<br></div></div>
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