Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:00:58 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? |
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:37:56AM -0400, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote: > It's not just gcc which RedHat did this to. They do this regularly with
They did this in the past with glibc and perl, for example, leading to really "interesting" portability problems. I always thought these were just bugs, caused by somebody who didn't think enough or didn't test enough, as happens all the time, but now...
Another big problem is, however, that their marketing department obviously sellls all these experimental snapshots as stable and official (although their gcc is highly patched for example).
> 2.2. He's within his rights to do so, but if he does, it will make > RedHat possibly incompatible with all other Linux distributions.
It already is. The 2.96 ABI is already incompatible to 2.95.2 AND will be incompatible to 3.0. Redhat mentined a lot of times that they want to avoid breaking the ABI twice. This pertains mainly to c++, but I am sure that complex applications (usually the big commercial ones) will break a lot.
OTOH, drepper@redhat.com might get pressed into not doing incompatible changes, although I trust drepper to act truely honest. This might not mean anything, however, since redhat was most probably ignoring their own people (e.g. from cygnus) who I really believe didn't support their decision. Redhat might just hack their libc to be redhat-7.0 compatible later...
> regard. Hopefully ISV's will be able to figure out for themselves that > it would be a Bad Idea to develop applications under RH 7.0, since it
Sounds like a parallel world :(
> If you don't like this, I suggest you send mail complaining to RedHat. > Customer complaints are going to be the only way that RH is going to be > influenced not to play games like this....
Hmm... (un)fortunately not most people are redhat customers yet. Or are they? Indeed, this is a good idea, so people, go and complain!
Anyway, redhat *is* starting to act immorally. Reminds me of some other big company who tries to monopolize his os by making it incompatible to anythign else...
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