RE: The State of GNOME

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Not a flame or anything but why would anyone want to program for libc5.
Isn't libc6 better?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Gertzfield [SMTP:che@debian.org]
> Sent:	Friday, February 26, 1999 9:35 AM
> To:	Preben Randhol
> Subject:	Re: The State of GNOME
> 
> >>>>> "Preben" == Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> writes:
> 
>     Preben> I think that RH 5.1 helped clear out a lot of bugs. None
>     Preben> else dared to release glibc stuff at that time. Debian
>     Preben> just hid in their Cathedral overlooking the Bazaar from
>     Preben> afar and Suse was doing other important things at the
>     Preben> time. Both have later made the transition to glibc if I'm
>     Preben> not very much mistaken.
> 
> I don't mean to preach, but Debian had a libc6 distribution in
> development from about December 1996 onward; you could have used the
> then-unstable 'hamm' distribution any time you wished and helped with
> development.
> 
> This was far before even Red Hat 5.0 came out. We simply did not wish
> to release our first libc6 distribution before it was ready, which
> paid off. It's STILL pretty tough to develop for both libc5 and libc6
> on a red hat box; it's trivial on a Debian box.
> 
> Ben
> 
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