On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:55:51PM +0000, Tim Cutts wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > > to support Debian?? > > The first thing I would do is to try to convince the vendor not to get > so hung up on supporting different distributions. If their product > depends tightly on kernel stuff, then they should base their support > matrix on kernel version, not on distribution. > > Point them at Platform Computing as an example of how to do it with LSF. > They support Linux, and they don't give a stuff what distribution you're > running. They support certain kernels, and certain C libraries, and > other than that they don't care. And they're not too precise about > kernel version - on X86 you can run any 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and any 2.1, > 2.2 or 2.3 glibc. They're a little pickier on other architectures (they > don't support 2.6 on either Alpha or Itanium yet). >
I would agree and add that soname incompatibilities are probably not an issue. Considering that this is probably a propietary program they're writing anyway I cannot imagine them linking in many libraries currently in main... greets, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
