LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Feb 4, 2021 1:20 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: LibreSSL languishes on Linux by netghost
Parent article: LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Err... surely people who are doing things on their own are not part of a community? That's the *definition* of a community: a group of people doing things together. They may be part of the community in other ways or other things they do, or may later be part of it, but whatever they are doing with libressl on their own is not part of the community until they start doing it with other people.

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Feb 5, 2021 14:57 UTC (Fri) by netghost (guest, #54048) [Link] (3 responses)

The people who compiles libraries on their own are not part of the “Linux Community“, is this what you mean?

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Feb 5, 2021 19:49 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Quite. They become part of a community when they start doing things with other people. That's what communities are. :)

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Feb 19, 2021 16:41 UTC (Fri) by netghost (guest, #54048) [Link] (1 responses)

So you mean "compile a library on their own" are NOT "doing things with other people"?

So Redhat/Ubuntu or whatever distributions are not "doing things with other people" by your definition, because they are compiling packages themselves. Oh, and all the Gentoo users.

I am surprised by the amount of rationality in your posts.

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Feb 19, 2021 21:29 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> So Redhat/Ubuntu or whatever distributions are not "doing things with other people" by your definition, because they are compiling packages themselves. Oh, and all the Gentoo users.

That's an odd conclusion. There is a big difference between people who compile something on their own for their own use and people who compile things specifically to make it available to others. Distributions do the latter. If a core library isn't supported by any major distribution, that by definition limits it's usage very much to the select few who choose to do it on their own. That is the current status of the LibreSSL and that is what LWN is covering.