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Needless ForksNeedless ForksPosted Dec 10, 2009 0:16 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Needless Forks by mpr22 Parent article: Callaway: Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package
Even on an underlying OS that actually cares about stability you can still find some independent developers doing "the wrong thing". So guess how much chance there is of independent developers ever relying on system librairies provided by Linux distributions which do not care about stability at all? None.
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Needless Forks Posted Dec 10, 2009 0:49 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Yet, that is what is happening a lot more than before. The problem is not that distributions do not care about it (although the level will vary) but a lot of upstream projects have historically ignored this problem. Projects like GTK have been exceptions. A lot of base platform libraries are adopting a saner model (as defined in http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html) over time and distributions will naturally inherit this trait. The alternative is just sticking to a base version and backporting which has its own tradeoffs.
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