On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 17:49 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Saturday 16 December 2006 10:40, James Tremblay wrote:
I don't think any software will ever be in a position to be compatible with all older versions, however the "buildservice" goes a long way towards not repeating previosly done work. if an RPM gets loaded into the buildservice and a new distro gets added to the "compile for" list it will do everything it can to migrate that RPM to the new distro, possibly in the future this will be automatic. James
This is an observation: I should think that those who code for Linux should make provision for backward compatibility. For the most part, M/S has done so.
Which makes it so bloated and unstable it isn't worth running. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org