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ABI breaks from security patches for stable releases, especially of Linux distributions, happen how often? In comparison, outdated npm/gem/pip/hipster-package-
by creshal 11y ago
ABI breaks from security patches for stable releases, especially of Linux distributions, happen how often?
In comparison, outdated npm/gem/pip/hipster-package-manager-of-the-week or docker installations happen how often?
With the former, the burden of updating and testing lies with a small handful of distribution maintainers. With the latter, every single developer has to worry about deployment and maintenance.
- cat-dev-null 11y agoDistros shouldn't waste time and effort on supporting and packaging language-specific, high-churn code packages except in very limited circumstances. Let the language specific-tools do those. Upstream is best, local fragmentation is wasteful.