glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "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