Adding Requests to the standard library [LWN.net]

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 18:16 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Adding Requests to the standard library by dlang
Parent article: Adding Requests to the standard library

Again, which libraries are you talking about? libgnomemm vanished from Fedora because something lower down its build chain no longer built and nobody was willing to maintain it. The old binaries will still install.

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Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 19:04 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (2 responses)

So why don't Fedora ship them then, if it's so easy to ship old libraries?

The end-user experience is that a perfectly good application disappeared.

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 19:09 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

It didn't build, and packages that don't build end up getting removed.

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 19:36 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

To be clear, I'm not arguing that this isn't a problem, just that the fault doesn't lie with the library authors.