Pierre Habouzit <madco...@madism.org> wrote: Hi,
Quoting out of context and generalizing from there, way to go. >> In the free software world, the diversity we have today, which is >> partly due to unaligned releases from the major vendors, is an asset. > > Security-wise ? Let's admit that, I don't want to fight on that point, > even if I think it's not as simple. It does help, but sure it's not that simple either. > But speaking from my experience as an employee of a software editor, I > can tell that the distribution diversity is a huge problem when it comes > to distributing our work. If your client use a Ubuntu LTS, a RHEL, a > SuSE or worst for some, some kind of home-brewed monster taken half from > a RHEL and custom packages (*sigh*) then you have as many builds to do, > regress-test and so on. When you target Windows or Solaris or MacosX, Guess what: this will still be the case even with aligned releases or whatever. You won't get rid of that unless all the distros collapse into a single one overnight. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
