One last try (was: RE: Convincing a harvester (was on SqF list))

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Thu May 8 15:35:57 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 20:47, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Consider a situation where we use a method in distro X which is not in
> distro Y (or implement a selector which is not in distro Y but defined by
> someone else in distro X). 

A very real danger. Although it is just as bad if people would fork
images (which has happened to some extent - plugin image, Squeakland
image, OpenCroquet image). The idea is:
1. to make sure that there's little incentive for forking off new
distros (as opposed to different images within the same distribution and
full compatibility);
2. to have very good dependency mechanisms. To some extent, all
RPM-based Linux distributions are dependency-compatible because they
phrase dependencies in terms of 'this packages needs v2.3 of the C
run-time library)', instead of specific package names.

But forking is dangerous. And we're way too small to survive serious
forks. But I think most of us are very aware of that.


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