On 04/03/2013 12:58 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
The only thing you get wrong is that you take a look at Fedora
packages
and do some statistics. You don't see the packages which could be in
Fedora if RPM/YUM would do better job.
Just as an example, I guess everybody would welcome Redmine [1] in
Fedora (you can substitute GitLab [2] or Aeolus [3] for Redmine if you
like). It was not possible to do so for several releases of Fedora,
since Redmine was using Ruby on Rails 2.3 where in Fedora, there was
Ruby on Rails 3.x. If we would like to move to Ruby on Rails 4 in Fedora
as soon as they'll be releases, we will have actually two options (1)
forget about the upgrade of Ruby on Rails in Fedora and wait for
upstream or possible become upstream, to help with migration of the
project (2) break Redmine and every application which is using Ruby on
Rails in Fedora. Neither of these options are good options. So the
easiest solution is to not have Redmine in Fedora at all.
So now, please, could you count also the cost of missed opportunities?
I have some difficulties believing that the only reason for this is that
the name "rubygem-rails" was already taken. May be you can elaborate a
bit more why getting Rails 2.3 into Fedora would have been fundamentally
easier if the name was still available?
Florian