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recompiling isn't. packaging for every distribution, edge and not and building autoconf for all of them and ifdef all over the code? not rocket science either,
by LoSboccacc 11y ago
recompiling isn't. packaging for every distribution, edge and not and building autoconf for all of them and ifdef all over the code?
not rocket science either, but that stuff does carry an increased cost
- lisivka 11y agoMore and more companies are just publishing their repos for Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/SuSE, which are built automatically from same source. If you have a problem with that, hire a developer.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoStatic linking would solve this. You end up with a bigger application and have to do updates every time a library needs a security patch. But you have this anyway if e.g. you release a python application on Windows.
- cookiecaper 11y agoTraditionally, the distros do the packaging on their own. I've seen this happen plenty with proprietary software (which will often release a single deb or rpm from which the other distros make their own packages).
- asddubs 11y agoif abi changes keep breaking things, how come skype keeps working even though microsoft barely ever updates it? For a while we were still on version 2, until microsoft decided to break the server protocol, but that version ran for ages without any updates.