[rt-users] RT and the Perl Dependency Nightmare...

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 17:35, Ruslan Zakirov wrote:
>  After RH9, the distribution split into the fast-cycle
> > Fedora which you use if you want frequent app-version updates
> Exactly this change in FC makes it more attractive for RT.

Not really.  With FC you have to do complete system version
upgrades often, something fairly painful when complicated apps
like RT are present. 

> > and RHEL (and the free rebuilds like Centos followed) where the
> > updates are bugfix backports which you use if you don't want
> > frequent behavior-changing updates.
> IMHO backports are root of the problems. Changes between 5.8.5 and
> 5.8.7 is not 5 patches, but 1000(may be less or may be more). And if
> someone in RH backports 1-100 patches it doesn't mean he only fixes
> bugs, but he also may unhide "new" bugs.

It's not perfect of course, but often the tradeoff works in your
favor compared to the number of new bugs introduced in the
untested code of the latest version.   You just have to get
past the versions that really screwed up the international
character set handling. 

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  Les Mikesell
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