Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Jesse Keating]

On 11/08/2012 12:19 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) said:
>> Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack
>> that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but
>> nobody who works on it has any idea how to implement them.
>
> In fact, this is what has been done in anaconda over the past couple of
> releases - Anaconda migrated from having its own boot and init
> infrastructure to using system-provided items such as dracut and systemd.
> But that's complicated work, and while you're doing that migration, you're
> doing a lot of arbitration as to what bits are in generic dracut, what
> bits are in generic systemd, and what bits remain in anaconda. And during
> that process, you are *very* tied to the version of the underlying system,
> until the work is fully complete and there is a defined separation of
> features into each layer.
>
> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't
> practical.
>
> Bill
>

Not to mention that while making this migration and after, when system 
tools /change their api/ or /change their command line arguments/ it 
means that the installer is suddenly broken again.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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