A fun article from Microsoft [LWN.net]

A fun article from Microsoft

Posted Dec 1, 2025 9:28 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: A fun article from Microsoft by Cyberax
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

Of course a single monopolistic team does not need packages, dynamic libraries and ABI assurances. It uses other mechanisms (called management and paycheck) to force every developer involved to converge and update to the same component versions. Giving up on packages is a net initial win in such an organization.

It remains to be seen if the other mechanisms manage to herd the cats effectively long term, past experience is not conclusive.

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A fun article from Microsoft

Posted Dec 1, 2025 14:16 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

If you actually read the article, one of the requirements was that distros could/would build the linux_x86 version.

Management and paycheck don't work there ...

Cheers,
Wol

A fun article from Microsoft

Posted Dec 1, 2025 14:36 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

Distributions never had any problem to rebuild clean upstreams, just the ones that were stuck on odd component versions

A fun article from Microsoft

Posted Dec 1, 2025 18:23 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

If you read the article, you'll see that they actually had exactly the same problem as something like Debian. And it took them years to finish this project.