On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 00:04 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:37:22 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote:
>> This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a
>> major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or
>> gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...
>
>And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development
>Platform. That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be. That's a far
>better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long
>lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates.
>Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things
>can and do churn, change, and sometimes break.
So does this mean objective number 4 should be removed from the
Objectives of the Fedora Project page?
"Provide a robust development platform for building software,
particularly open source software."
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
Then again if you are using FC5 as a major development platform for your
own Xorg-based application wouldn't you want your code to work with the
latest version of Xorg?
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Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc(a)jrcormier.com>