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Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.

To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
Subject: Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
From: Jes Sorensen <jes at linuxcare dot com>
Date: 31 Jul 2000 19:04:57 +0200
Cc: libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <u83dkql3yn.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> <20000731175504.H26939@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20000731175831.A14316@suse.de>

>>>>> "Thorsten" == Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

Thorsten> On Mon, Jul 31, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> What's your suggested way of testing things sufficiently so that
>> glibc 2.2 can be a reality soonish?  I think a Beta distribution is
>> a very good way how to get thousands of testers (which would not
>> give it a shot otherwise) to test it.

Thorsten> Yes, it is a good way. But we know that we will have binary
Thorsten> incompatible changes for 2.2 final (like sunrpc/IPv6). And
Thorsten> here the problem starts: Tell the people that they can
Thorsten> delete everything the build. They will claim that we have to
Thorsten> make binary compatible beta versions and will not accept
Thorsten> this. We had this already.

gcc 3.0 has the same problem, still people are sticking gcc-2.9x in
their distributions.

Jes

References:
- glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Thorsten Kukuk

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