The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 18, 2012 17:51 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The eudev project launches by HelloWorld
Parent article: The eudev project launches

Because why would you run a long-obsolete kernel, and yet require a brand-new version of udev?

Because new versions of udev contain new libudev APIs, and applications can depend on those. Were it not for eudev, we'd be required to upgrade the kernel in order to run such applications. This sort of tight coupling is not good. (Well, OK, some people seem to think that the tighter the coupling, the better, but I very much hold with the traditional viewpoint that loose coupling is to be preferred.)

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The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 18, 2012 18:29 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (3 responses)

> Because new versions of udev contain new libudev APIs, and applications can depend on those. Were it not for eudev, we'd be required to upgrade the kernel in order to run such applications.
You have a point, but I don't think that this is a good reason to fork udev. As Cyberax pointed out (https://lwn.net/Comments/529570/), that kind of thing can be done within a branch. Git makes this kind of work flow quite easy, and eglibc has shown that such an approach can work.

The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 18, 2012 19:14 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

There's no difference between a branch that's managed by different people and a fork.

The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 18, 2012 20:09 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Quite. That is to say, there is no difference *at all* -- the version control system model is identical. The people behind this just think that saying 'eudev' is easier than saying 'the Gentoo udev git repository' all the time.

The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 18, 2012 22:21 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

I disagree. PREEMPT-RT is a branch, it's not maintained by Linus, but it's not what I'd call a fork either.