* Michael Meskes: >> Instead, proprietary software vendors should ship all libraries in the >> versions they need, or link their software statically. I wouldn't > >>From a technical standpoint this may make sense, but not from the > commercial standpoint ISVs have to take. Building your own environment > to work on all distros is certainly much more work than just certifying > for the one distribution you use in your development labs anyway.
LCC could concentrate on providing such a distribution-independent execution environment, and perform the necessary integration tests for commercially relevant distributions. Just an idea. I think this is far more promising than lobbying distributions to delegate responsibility for core packages.
