Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 1, 2014 18:12 UTC (Mon) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by ibukanov
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

If I see things correctly, the application developer would still need to test against all updates (security or otherwise) to the run-time they depend on, but the advantage would be not having to do this for all the distributions on which their application might run.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 1, 2014 19:15 UTC (Mon) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

I doubt that this new promise of test-once run anywhere can do any better than previous ones. Ideally the application should not need any additional testing after the release of a particular version, when a developer still has insensitive in testing on different platforms or at least pay attention to bug reports. But this again requires full compatibility in eveolving system interfaces and resilience to harm from bugs, the issues that the proposal does not address.