9 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Re: The end of Re...
FromSent OnAttachments
DanNov 5, 2003 1:04 am 
Sam VarshavchikNov 5, 2003 4:12 am 
Bill HackerNov 7, 2003 10:43 am 
Malcolm WeirNov 7, 2003 11:01 am 
Bill HackerNov 7, 2003 12:50 pm 
Mitch (WebCob)Nov 7, 2003 12:56 pm 
Jon NelsonNov 7, 2003 3:02 pm 
Joe EmenakerNov 7, 2003 3:17 pm 
Bill HackerNov 7, 2003 7:50 pm 
Actions with this message:
Paste this link in email or IM:
Paste this link in email or IM:
Atom feed for this thread
Paste this URL into your reader:
Subject:Re: [courier-users] Re: The end of RedHat...Actions...
From:Joe Emenaker (jo@emenaker.com)
Date:Nov 7, 2003 3:17:40 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Bill Hacker wrote:

turn on the Linux-binaries interface in FreeBSD in nearly two years now, and suspect that moving a build/tarball/RPM from *BSD back to Linux would be at least as easy as the reverse...

And then wrote...

A) 'Taint *about* "stability" - it is about choice of a common-meet-point that is somewhat less of a moving-target. The Linices dynamism is both virtue and vice from a distribution-of-common-code wiewpoint.

So... what I'm hearing when I read "A)" is that, developing on a Linux distrib is tougher because it's a "moving target", which I'm taking to mean that the API's are more in flux or something like that.

Yet, originally, you said that it should be just as easy to port from BSD to Linux as it is to go from Linux to BSD.

I think it's pretty unlikely that both of these statements can be simultaneously true.

- Joe