On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 13:44, Chris Toshok wrote:
Out of date = easier to track for a proprietary product. It's not that it's difficult to build connector for a particular distribution, it's the fact that it's difficult to support.
This is a fair objection. Would the Ximian team consider the idea of providing FC with a connector based on a known set of MANDITORY packages and VERSIONS. Only this subset would be officially supported. This way it puts the power in the users/customers hands as to if they would like to upgrade or not. This should be trivial to support, correct? Well, except for all the lusers who don't read the docs and try to get support with non-valid software [as mentioned above]. You could write a simple shell script to check if all the "dependencies" are covered to limit lusers from trying to use your support resources. If they are, then the user has the right to contact offical support. Otherwise they are on their own with the mailing list. Does that make sense to anyone? There must be a solution that will fit everyone (optimism... something you don't see every day).
anything branded as "unstable" just isn't worth the effort. Think about it - unstable platforms may contain bugs depending on which version of which bleeding edge packages you're running. Do we want to expend the effort to figure out which bugs are in our code and which are in the new and exciting libraries that are in use on a particular user's system? Would you? Maintenance costs (in terms of man-hours for QA and engineering) aren't trivial, and with a team this small are at a premium to begin with. Chris
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