Re: [Plib-users] Library Initialization - Conclusion

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Elad Lahav wrote:
> 
> I have switch to Mandrake 7.1, and everything works great now. Not only
> plib, but also many other things I have tried to compile ever since I had
> installed the beta and release versions of RedHat 7.
> It is such a disappointment to learn that a major distribution (THE major
> distribution?) has made such a big mistake, and is not even admitting it.

<rant>

I'm just astounded that:

a) ...they'd ever pick up a non-released CVS and put it into a distro.
b) ...they'd do something like that for something as critically
      important as the C/C++ compiler.
c) ...that they wouldn't change their policy when the kernel team
      *and* the compiler team tell them not to do it.
d) ...that all these problems didn't come out during beta test.

They must be out of their tiny minds!

Distro's should only *ever* ship "even numbered" versions of anything. To
do otherwise does a great disservice to us poor maintainers because:

 * It makes us look bad when our software fails in the field.

 * It dramatically increases the number of emails we have to deal
   with from people for whom it failed.

Neither can be a good thing.

</rant>

> Anyway, things have worked for the best, since Mandrake looks (up to now)
> like a better distribution in other aspects as well.

I'm still a fan of SuSE - but that may change with their 7.0 release now that
they've split into 'amateur' and 'professional' versions.  I havn't had very
good dealings with Mandrake so far, I've gotten dragged into a couple of
flame wars with some of their package maintainers - and on the basis of that,
I don't have a terribly high opinion of their staff.

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