Poettering: Revisiting the fragmentation

Posted Sep 5, 2014 6:35 UTC (Fri) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting the fragmentation by nix
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

> do you think we're anywhere near your utopia yet? Not really...

Strongly agree: not yet, and by a far stretch.

But utopia is a place to "move towards" and not to "be in", anyway. So watch me making uncomfortable noises whenever I think the direction is wrong.

And yes, designing a good interface is definitely the hard part. But it's rewarding. And we as a profession should insist on getting that reward :-)

Poettering: Revisiting the fragmentation

Posted Sep 5, 2014 16:17 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

It's hard to insist on anything when there is no barrier to entry for writing library code, anyone can write what they want, and anyone can use it regardless of its ABI discipline, if enough people use it then there is a lot of pressure to package it up for the major distros and the distros have shown a limited amount of pushback for enforcing quality standards on upstreams.