On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:15, Fred Harris wrote:
There's a big push among packages like Fedora and Debian to virtualize installations with seemless state archival, recovery, and transitions. I suppose that may be more of an issue for the packager than the software developer. I predict that the packages that seemlessly update state across versions will be the only ones that exist in the future.
If you are trying to place blame here, I'd look first at the distros that included a pre 1.x package in the first place instead of what happens as it reaches what the developer would call the release version. Having said that, there probably are a vast number of .99.x versions currently in use in FC < 5 versions, RHEL, and Centos, and the change is going to be a problem for a lot of people.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com