Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 16:35 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:45 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:35 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
> > that python did not allow applications not to specify a version, but
> > it's not the first development environment to make it easy for people to
> > make mistakes. I think that Java needs the same attention.
> 
> The problem is that Distro A with GNOME 2.10 might have Python 2.3 while
> Distro B with GNOME 2.10 might have Python 2.4.  So now if the app does
> specify version - like it should - it'll only work on one distro and not
> the other.  The funny part is that *both* distros provide the same
> platform in terms of what GNOME specifies.  In other words, GNOME is not
> specifying a platform at all.

Distro A might be shipping glibc 2.3.4, while Distro B ships 2.2.0. If
you build the app on Distro A and move it to distro B it might not work.
Does this mean Gnome has to specify a version of glibc too? I don't
quite see the difference.

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