C++ compatibility package dropped

[Nicholas Miell]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:17 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> On 6/26/05, Paul Iadonisi <pri.rhl4 at iadonisi.to> wrote:
> [...]
> >   I, for one, prefer Fedora to move forward, getting rid of old, crufty
> > compat-* packages giving low priority to those who don't want to adapt
> > their apps to Fedora's fast moving pace.  *You* may not take Fedora
> > seriously.  I don't need backwards compat cruft for *me* to take it
> > seriously.  Even with being considered for the 'hobbyist, enthusiast,
> > developer.'
> 
> Is gcc 3.3 old and crutfy? Wow. 1 year ago?. Well, this compat
> breaking from gcc people plus non "old and crutfy" support on distros
> is making C++ (and gtkmm) a non possible platform for ISV's making
> software for Linux.

This wouldn't be a problem if the C++ people stopped breaking the C++
ABI every single release.

>  And ISV don't have resources to package their
> application for every Linux distro, setting up repositories, etc...
> They just want to put a package and allow people to download it and
> install it easily.
> 
> We have very few ISV making software for linux now, because we have
> very few desktop share, but this is changing...

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>