El 17/09/10 10:28, C escribió:
There have been attempts at standardizing, but.. everyone just ignored it and went on their merry way.
Do you mean the LSB ? ( aka. Linux Super Bull**) :-) While there are attempts from corporations to still beat this dead horse, it is doomed to fail why ? - It attempts to define an ABI instead of a API, in this always changing enviroment, this sole idea reveals it was thought by high management positions or people that has no clue whatsoever how real applications work. - It doesn't matter to opensource, only to proprietary software. - The tooling and documentation behind the LSB is embarrasing, it has ridiculous CS 101 bugs. [1] - aparrently, decisions are made for purely political reasons, last example is it was decided that mozilla-nss should be used instead of openSSL, this does not match the real world, there are only 132 packages using mozilla-nss and 1902 packages using openSSL in a complete distribution. reading the rationale, it says it was adopted because it has FIPS compliance certification, commit to ABI stability (read, the same old, the same old cruft..) and a friendlier license.. (!?) I hope you understand now why it is ignored, it is "Design by committee". Cheers. [1] just a little example https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=lsb-misctest-bof-security_101.patch&package=lsb-misctest&project=openSUSE:Factory:Contrib&srcmd5=c1b96efbd7dbfa68e6dc6cdbf4dfafa6 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org