Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl
Mon Nov 4 08:03:51 UTC 2013


On 03.11.2013 20:25, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz
> 
> Do I understand correctly that first problem could be solved by
> 
>     stabilizing APIs used in various Linux projects? Because developers
>     don't want stabilizationt they invent workarounds like sandboxes?
>     Wouldn't it be easier to have stable API for some period of time?
> 
> 
> You mean ABI and not API but your question is answered already in the
> comments at
> http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/02/01/developer-hackfest-status/
> 
> " Ideally we *do* want most app to share the system libs, but only
> those, not the non-core libraries of varying ABI stability and quality.
> This way we can work hard to make the core 100% ABI backwards"
> 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries



Mateusz Marzantowicz



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