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you do NOT need to write all your programs together to make them work together.

you do NOT need to write all your programs together to make them work together.

Posted Jan 29, 2013 2:54 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: you do NOT need to write all your programs together to make them work together. by dlang
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

> There is a mindset required.
> 1. you have to accept that there will be other users of your interfaces
> 2. you have to accept that there will be people who don't use your favorite components
> 3. you have to define your interfaces
> 4. you have to maintain backwards compatibility for your interfaces (no dropping features just because it's convenient for you and you don't need them any longer)

Well, systemd does that[1].

[1]http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Interfac...


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