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>OBS is shipping EOL Qt because of unfixed regressions in newer Qt, Fedora views shipping EOL Qt as unjustifiable neglect and repackaged it with newer Qt, which
by foul 2y ago
>OBS is shipping EOL Qt because of unfixed regressions in newer Qt, Fedora views shipping EOL Qt as unjustifiable neglect and repackaged it with newer Qt, which, as described, breaks things.
Why do they still mingle with sw distributions? Wasn't the sandboxed blob trend born also to try blackbox strategies and have parallel versions without dealing with too much hell? Was that laziness/economical advantage (EOL'd library, no business in porting fixes, upgrade to the latest and greatest) or something else?
- vrighter 2y agoBackwards compatibility is not in style anymore. Upgrading several libs system-wide is likely to cause breakage in old apps. A statically linked application doesn't rot (because linux guarantees userspace compatibility). By "doesn't rot" I mean "will keep running indefinitely without requiring some maintainer to keep working on the code indefinitely."
- foul 2y agoThis is crazy because it's a flatpak, which should be a blob with all its deps in there, like a statically linked application "but better" for other system reasons because e.g. you can sandbox the app by design. For this reason I don't understand why did they changed the library in there (that build of OBS wasn't broken because of system-wide libs, it was because allegedly they changed the lib in the flatpak), whatever the security hole couldn't they block it "from the outside"?