Messages in this thread | | | From | "jeff millar" <> | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:54:20 -0400 |
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Sound like "Embrace and Extend" with a different flavor, similar effect.
jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> To: "Marc Lehmann" <pcg@goof.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 1:37 AM Subject: Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?
> It's not just gcc which RedHat did this to. They do this regularly with > the kernel (where they've used 2.2.17preXX kernels), glibc (they are > shipping with a beta of glibc 2.2 in RH 7.0), XFree-86 (they're using an > unstable snapshot of XFree86 taken from the CVS repository --- the > XFree86 folks I talked to weren't impressed with the stability of the > snapshot they took, and weren't entirely happy with RH's decision), etc. > > At this point, I can only hope and pray that Ulrich Drepper doesn't > choose to make any backwards incompatible changes between 2.1.94 and > 2.2. He's within his rights to do so, but if he does, it will make > RedHat possibly incompatible with all other Linux distributions. > > Sigh, we've had ISV's already complaining that it's too hard ship > versions which are compatible with all the various distributions. > Unfortunately it may be that RH 7.0 isn't going to help things in this > regard. Hopefully ISV's will be able to figure out for themselves that > it would be a Bad Idea to develop applications under RH 7.0, since it > might compromise their cross-distribution portability. > > If you don't like this, I suggest you send mail complaining to RedHat. > Customer complaints are going to be the only way that RH is going to be > influenced not to play games like this.... > > - Ted
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