On Wednesday 11 May 2005 22:27, Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005 23:08:42 +0100
Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Look at http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/ to see the nonsense that Skype has to go through for each distro, at least a number of distros had the good sense to base themselves on Debian, possibly one reason why Munich went Debian after SuSE/IBM had done all the hard work.
I suspect you're on the money there, Sid. At least Debian has a constant structure, and a rock-solid one at that.
What are you guys talking about? "SUSE, RedHat and Mandrake et al. can't agree where to keep things, therefore Debian is better because Debian keeps things in the same place as Debian"??? The reason skype and opera needs to maintain separate versions is because it's written in c++. Blame the gcc project instead of the distros. Debian is stable because Debian never updates anything unless the project leader retires, or something. I hope you're not saying we should never update libraries ever But I do agree that the gcc c++ project isn't the best run project in the world