Le dimanche, 21 octobre 2012 19.33:28, Enrico Zini a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:26:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > generalisation of application stores. How can we attract the creative > > people who entered the field of software development and distribution on > > Android or iOS ? > > Worse, because of the fragmentation of the « Linux » landscape, if they > > want to distribute their work on « Linux », these developers need to > > learn how to do so on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc., or need to > > convince develpers to package their work. And this still does not save > > them from learning complex details, as for instance it is not obvious to > > determine how long it will take for a package to migrate from Debian to > > Ubuntu. > > I've said this at the AppInstaller meeting almost 2 years ago and I'm > still convinced of it: the distribution fragmentation is the least of > our concerns. The big concern is that we don't have a stable "Linux" > API.
Isn't that what "LSB" is meant to provide? Besides that is suffers from another type of fragmentation: upstream's engagements on long-term supporting their supposedly extra-stable APIs. The case I'm thinking about is stuff like Qt3, that is a "must" of the LSB version we will claim to support in Wheezy but that noone can reasonably claim to support security-wise, because Qt upstream's moved to Qt4 (or 5, or 6 already?). Salut, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201210212233.36977.o...@debian.org