Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

Posted Sep 25, 2010 8:22 UTC (Sat) by nicooo (guest, #69134)
In reply to: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros by NAR
Parent article: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

> but in practice the applications depend on each other way too much, can't easily downgrade/upgrade a single application.

Usually they depend on the same libraries, not each other. I know KDE has a stable ABI; why they choose to update everything at once probably has an explanation... I can't think of any right now.

Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

Posted Oct 4, 2010 11:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, when libraries gain new facilities, those facilities have to be used by something or they might as well not be there. So even if everything is backward-compatible, you have to version the libraries to indicate the addition of new facilities, *and* you have to version the applications to indicate that they require a library with those new facilities. Giving both the same version number and releasing them simultaneously seems like a not-too-confusing-to-users way to do that.