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

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Dec 7 18:03:03 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:49:24PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I think the real lesson is that platforms should take backwards
> compatibility more seriously.  The single best decision that libvirt
> has ever made was to promise to support the libvirt API and ABI
> forever.  If you wrote a program against libvirt 0.0.1 (or whatever it
> was) 7 years ago, it should still work today.

And that's awesome, and *we* can do that when we make code. And we can even
ask nicely for other people to follow the same practices. But, it's a wild
world out there.....


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