[Fedora-packaging] SCL -- buildtime information

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 10/08/2013 03:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:11:34PM +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>>>    - Note: there may be additional work as well.  dgilmore asked whether
>>>      the SCL model is to build once for the oldest supported OS release
>>>      and then that SCL build will run on any newer OS release. If that's
>>>      not the case (I didn't think it was but confirmation would be nice)
>>>      then you'd need to have separate yum/bodhi/etc for every
>>>      $SCL-$OSRelease combination.
>> It depends what will be the workflow. We spoke about accepting the
>> new scl by FESCo as a Change. In this case it would be possible to
>> build only in the latest Fedora.
>
> My understanding is that the same SCL will be built for multiple Fedora
> releases, so that it's properly rebuilt against all the new Fedora libraries
> but it will provide a less-changing target for applications. For example, if
> I have an application written in LangDujour, and there is a LangDujour 1
> SCL, I will be able to use scl-LangDujour-1-1.f19 and then in the future
> scl-LangDujour-1-1.f20 and scl-LangDujour-1-1.f21, without having to switch
> to LangDujour 2.0 immediately when f20 comes out.
>
> Correct?
>
Yeah sure built for more Fedoras, that will work. I did understand one 
build for more releases :)