Fedora opens up to bundling
Fedora opens up to bundling
Posted Oct 21, 2015 16:12 UTC (Wed) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)In reply to: Fedora opens up to bundling by lsl
Parent article: Fedora opens up to bundling
... is the correct answer. The problem isn't just applications, it's libraries not offering long term stable API guarantees. This is sloppy, lazy programming.
Posted Oct 21, 2015 17:43 UTC (Wed)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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Fedora opens up to bundling
...except for applications that take libraries, mangle them in incompatible ways, and bundle the results. (Chrome/chromium was the most infamous example of this, though I understand they have considerably cleaned up their act in recent years)