On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:49:37PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:02:59PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > I am failing to accept that vendors need to use those very specific > > things in their software. just like I doubt that people need IE-HTML > > to make their sites render properly. I think laziness^W business > > thinking is more likely an option. > Probably because you don't write this kind of software then. I'm working > for telco stuff, we have very specific needs towards the high > availability interfaces (epoll and similar) linux provides, and its SCTP > stack. This only has caused us major issues in the past. For that sort of stuff you normally end up needing to validate the binary image of the system anyway - especially if the telco thinks it can get away with charging you for compliance testing on any change. What coding to standards buys you is a greater degree of protection against things breaking underneath you which does get you 90% of the way there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org