On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 17:49 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Saturday 16 December 2006 10:40, James Tremblay wrote: > > > > I don't think any software will ever be in a position to be compatible > > with all older versions, however the "buildservice" goes a long way > > towards not repeating previosly done work. if an RPM gets loaded into > > the buildservice and a new distro gets added to the "compile for" list > > it will do everything it can to migrate that RPM to the new distro, > > possibly in the future this will be automatic. > > James > > This is an observation: I should think that those who code for Linux should > make provision for backward compatibility. For the most part, M/S has done > so.
Which makes it so bloated and unstable it isn't worth running. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
