On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 00:23, Terry Barnaby wrote: > Hi Brad, > > Yes, that would be good, but as an application developer we can't dictate > what platform the users will use. The majority of users use the standard > Redhat Linux. This will continue, I think, and so we will need to support > rapidly changing ABI's of these systems. Customers will get difficulties > as they will not be able to just install standard binary applications and > Linux will start to get a bad name as it will be seen as "unstable".
rpmbuild --rebuild --arch myarch somerpm.src.rpm. Maybe this should be the official way of distributing applications anyway. There's no reason RHN couldn't download the src rpm and rebuild it on the user's system in the background. It does require having development libraries that aren't always installed, but these are merely another dependency. Not to mention you'd automatically get a build optimized for your architecture (although this is of arguable benefit). > It seems that RedHat want to make the majority of its current users beta > testers for its other products. At the moment, in turn for users > and developers providing bug testing and fixes, RedHat provides a reasonably > stable platform for all users. I am concerned that this partnership which > has benifited RedHat, RedHat users and Linux in general may be lost. I don't see it. This is the Linux model. You seem to be saying that what has worked for Linux from day one isn't going to work anymore. Can you back that up? -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
