Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Assume that your own application will take around a year to write/test
before deployment. Do you wait to start that work until after the
release of the OS and libraries you will be using, develop on something
you know is wildly different, or do you try to use something as close as
possible, knowing that backwards compatibility isn't taken very
seriously in the Linux kernel and distribution world?
At last, we get to the real problem - You want to develop for the
next release of RHEL, but Fedora is changing to fast for you to be
able use Fedora for that.
No, I have no problem with Fedora being used for testing and development
in any situation where being down for inderminate amounts of of time or
doing without security updates is acceptable. You are taking what I
said way out of context.
So you want Fedora development to change
to allow you to do that. Otherwise it is too much work to develop
your project. It must not be a user-space application, because there
you find things like compat libraries.
Sometimes, sometimes not. Suppose you had developed something as an
add-on to CIPE tunnels on the RHEL3/kernel 2.4. There's no concession
to backwards compatibility on RHEL4 and later.
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Les Mikesell
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