Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Peter Linnell <mrdocs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/2011 03:11 PM, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
> On Friday 25 November 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 06:06:16PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > On 25/11/11 15:18, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > > > Yea you would love that would you not     dream on ..
> > >
> > > It doesnt matter what I wish or dream, this article by drepper is
> > > going to show you the reality and in the end why it is doomed to
> > > fail
> > >   http://udrepper.livejournal.com/8511.html
> >
> > That was 6 years ago, the LSB has changed a lot since then.  Not as
> > much as some of us would like, but I wouldn't count it out just yet
> > :)
>
> BTW Drepper only criticiced the value of LSB's ABI part which would be
> needed for portable binary shipped sofware. He has not claimed that LSB
> is dead. Others think that even the ABI is useful now and it's actually
> used by large companies shipping closed source stuff.
>
> cu,
> Rudi

Moreover, there are people within openSUSE reviving LSB for the next 
version.

While it is imperfect, it could be a useful standard. Hopefully the next 
round corrects the sins of the past.

Peter
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