Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Frank Gruman <fgatwork@verizon.net> writes:
>
> fg> I think this is the one big shortfall of all of these Linux
> fg> distributions out there today - to many programs with to many
> fg> dependencies on one flavor of a package or another. I've talked
> to fg> a couple of other programmers who won't code for Linux because
> fg> they don't want to put users through dependency hell if the user
> fg> doesn't have the right stuff.
>
> Well, of course if you release your code under an open source or free
> software license then you don't have to care at all about any of this.
> The distribution is going to manage it all for you: that's what they
> do and why they exist.
>
> The apps we're discussing here do fall into that category, I believe.
You absolutely *DO* have to care. Many tools do not have a commonly used
open-source license model, and many of them exert weird limitations on
development. Subversion has been very good about this, as has Apache, but
other tools like XFree86 and pine and NVidia drivers have not. This was why
most Linuxes switched to Xorg instead of XFree86, and why few Linuxes will
carry pine anymore.
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Received on Fri Apr 14 19:29:02 2006