Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 14, 2015 3:12 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Fedora opens up to bundling by dlang
Parent article: Fedora opens up to bundling

I agree with this as well. If a shared library exists, use it; if no shared library exists, don't force upstream to change that (potentially *causing* ABI problems if the "library" doesn't provide a stable interface).

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 15, 2015 12:04 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

> I agree with this as well. If a shared library exists, use it; if no shared library exists, don't force upstream to change that (potentially *causing* ABI problems if the "library" doesn't provide a stable interface).

This is basically the new policy in a nutshell.

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 17, 2015 20:56 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

hmm, the article paints a very different picture.

and the terminology used seems point make an exception based on the convienience of the project using the library.