Adam Williamson wrote:
It's not, really. Fedora's is the only development branch
which is so
neglected, no other distro's is. To give the example I'm most familiar
with, Mandriva's development branch has, this cycle, gone through a
complete rebuild, Python 2.5 -> 2.6 migration, Tcl 8.5 -> 8.6 migration,
X server 1.4 -> 1.6 (git snapshot then final release) migration, and a
few other major changes. Most developers run it, as do quite a lot of
testers, and it generally works. (While the Python 2.6 rebuild was going
on, if you tried to upgrade, you'd see about four hundred errors. This
was a fairly good clue that you should wait until the rebuild was
complete before updating. Most people are able to handle this level of
cogitation.)
They were only able to do this that reliably because Fedora did all the
testing for them. ;-) Python 2.6 and X server 1.6 are old news for us.
That said, Tcl/Tk 8.6 is interesting, we're still stuck at 8.5 in
Rawhide. :-( Given the amount of legacy Tcl/Tk software in Fedora, I'm not
sure upgrading to a beta version (which is what 8.6 still is) is that great
an idea (8.5 caused enough problems when we moved to it), but still, we're
lagging behind there. :-(
Kevin Kofler