reviving Fedora Legacy

[Les Mikesell]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
>>>> Then no one should be surprised at the migration to Ubuntu and
>>>> other
>>>> distributions that have a more orderly transition from version to
>>>> version.
>>> Which problem do you have with the transition from Fedora x to
>>> Fedora
>>> x+1?
>> Massive breakage...  Compatibility with the jpackage repo would be one
>> example.
> 
> This is not a Fedora LTS (or even jpackage) problem,

Changing APIs and thus becoming incompatible with everything that 
depended on them is very much a Fedora problem - or perhaps better 
stated as a Fedora user's problem.

> it's an artifact
> of the historical OS/java split produced by closed JVMs.

No, it is an artifact of wildly changing APIs.  That was just an obvious 
example.  The same applies to apache/perl/python and just about every 
other package versioning.

> It will heal itself as the jvm is internalised and the jpp <-> fedora
> flow gets more dynamic.

I'm nowhere near that optimistic.  I expect more of the usual fedora 
syndrome where everything must become part of the internal repository 
and carefully tweaked to match today's weirdness to be expected to work 
at all, instead of working to match and maintain standard APIs and 
compatibility with 3rd party work.   And then between fedora releases, 
the internal weirdness makes wild jumps so even your own development 
work that depended on earlier APIs has to start over.

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    Les Mikesell
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