Bryan Murdock wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is cool to use the latest and greatest tools, but frankly this rapid >> development of all things Linux is a huge hindrance to Linux adoption. >> It's a hard one to find a balanced solution for, in a corporate environment. > > Seriously. Why do those crazy developers keep fixing bugs and adding > useful new features all the time? Why can't they just leave things > the way they are!
Like totally. The point of a LTS distro is that that ABI remains stable and unchanging. A distro update to a library has to just work with everything that depends on it. Bugs are fixed all the time by the vendors, even after the developers have longs since abandoned the version. That's the point of an LTS like RHEL (server or WS). New versions introduce new bugs and changes to the ABIs (or APIs). This is big problem for those of many of us. We also love Django, but once we deploy, we're stuck with the version of django and Python 2.4 for the life of the server, with the occasional bug and security fix applied. Changing the version of Django could well break apps that are in production. Fortunately Django tends to handle older versions of Python pretty well. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
