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GNOME platform librariesGNOME platform librariesPosted Jul 29, 2012 5:44 UTC (Sun) by jackb (subscriber, #41909)In reply to: GNOME platform libraries by rleigh Parent article: Otte: staring into the abyss
You still can't properly construct objects and extend it without this unapplied patch! I think part of the problem is a mindset left over from the pre-DVCS days. There shouldn't be freestanding patches any more - instead all patches should come from a public git repositories which contain the change. What kind of ecosystem would develop if userspace applications were developed more like the Linux kernel? What if distros stored the bugfixes they develop in public git repositories and pulled from each other as well as upstream? What if getting features to users could just as easily take place by convincing the distro maintainers to pull your changes as it could by getting the change implemented in the "official" repositories?
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GNOME platform libraries Posted Jul 29, 2012 21:32 UTC (Sun) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]
This means each distribution would provide a different API.
A software tested on Ubuntu could completely break on Fedora because the respective distribution maintainers applied two different patch to fix the same bug in two different way.
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