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Too much choiceToo much choicePosted Jan 20, 2008 15:57 UTC (Sun) by robilad (guest, #27163)In reply to: Too much choice by jhs Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit
It's impossible that authors know much about most of the platforms their software is being distributed on, due to factors like amount of choice in platforms, and access to them, or in case of ISVs, the platforms they make money from, and are willing to support, and the rest. A system that puts authors above distributors is going to fail, as it puts people who have next to no idea about the end user's environment in charge over those that do.
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Too much choice Posted Jan 21, 2008 12:14 UTC (Mon) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link] Not sure if this is such a big deal, Things like Java and acrobat have been distributed as fancy tarballs for ages. All ISVs need to do is put up a tarball with a description of system requirements and people will make installers for various systems for you, no charge. If you as ISV stick to using LSB libc and other standard libraries you really shouldn't have any problems....
Too much choice Posted Jan 21, 2008 12:59 UTC (Mon) by robilad (guest, #27163) [Link] Java has been an amusingly painful story, if you look at the trouble the debian/jpackage/gentoo folks have been going through to make the binary blobs fit into the distributions, from in-the-middle-of-the-night updates to the tarballs by the vendors without a version change breaking md5 sums all over the place, to the inability to fetch the tarballs directly legally without interacting with a licensing mechanism, to breakage due to binary ABI changes , and a whole lot of other fun war stories the bug trackers and change logs can tell.
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