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Exactly...Exactly...Posted Apr 5, 2012 20:35 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: Exactly... by khim Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
I agree that Boost is not on the top of the list of things this distro should care about. It was just the first example that came to mind which breaks the ABI with *every* release (if not in reality, the libraries get renamed for each version which makes it a moot point).
Yes, first, whatever is required to implement freedesktop.org standards, hardware, and external communications should be included (starting from the bottom with a kernel, systemd, udev, dbus, upower, udisks, *dm, pulseaudio, cups, firewall, etc.). After that, get the user-facing applications done in an upstream-oriented way (app storeish). After that, I, at least, would like to see common libraries be provided by the system which apps can assume exist. The set of libraries included could be part of the interface declared for a version.
The reasoning is that I would think that development should still be easy, so getting libraries and such provided by the distro should be possible instead of going around and downloading umpteen dependencies to start some project. Unless a "developer's" store makes sense, but I think distro packages do better than an app store model would. Of course, that is further down the road after user applications work.
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Exactly... Posted Apr 5, 2012 21:07 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] The reasoning is that I would think that development should still be easy, so getting libraries and such provided by the distro should be possible instead of going around and downloading umpteen dependencies to start some project. Oh, yeah. Ease of development is important, but this is separate issue. If developers know that some platform will give them they are ready to jump through a lot of hoops. I'm not sure distribution-supplied packages will be good for an app-store model, or perhaps it'll be better to use something like Gentoo, but it does not matter: if packages developed using different IDEs and different distributions can be used simultaneously then they don't compete with each other. In fact on Windows situation with libraries is extremely painful - yet this is most popular platform there is (Visual Studio is superb IDE, on the other hand). Development on Linux is not that bad - but it's pointless if the thing you've just developed can not be delivered to the end user without jumping through many extra hoops.
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