[LUG.ro] Cómo se construye Linux, (con ejemplos)

[Pablo S. Colombo]

El 23 de abril de 2012 10:15, Ezequiel García <elezegarcia en gmail.com>escribió:

> Les envío un extracto de un thread de la lista de correo lkml,
> qué es lo más parecido a las oficinas de Linux.
> Es una respuesta de Linus Torvalds a un patch de un señor.
>
> Asumo que debe haber algún profesional del software por acá
> y cómo esto no tiene desperdicio y viene al caso según los últimos
> correos.... bueno acá está:
>
> Saludos,
> Ezequiel.
>
> -----
>
> >
> > Keeping compatibility is easy enough that it looks like it is worth
> > doing, but maintaining 30+ years of backwards compatibility
>
> Stop right there.
>
> This is *not* about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".
>
> This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.
>
> So stop the f*&^ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken,
> stop making excuses, and stop blathering.
>
> End of story. Binary compatibility is more important than *any* of
> your patches. If you continue to argue anything else or making
> excuses, I'm going to ask people to just ignore your patches entirely.
>
> Seriously. Binary compatibility is *so* important that I do not want
> to have anything to do with kernel developers who don't understand
> that importance. If you continue to pooh-pooh the issue, you only show
> yourself to be unreliable.  Don't do it.
>
> Dammit, I'm continually surprised by the *idiots* out there that don't
> understand that binary compatibility is one of the absolute top
> priorities. The *only* reason for an OS kernel existing in the first
> place is to serve user-space. The kernel has no relevance on its own.
> Breaking existing binaries - and then not acknowledging how horribly
> bad that was - is just about the *worst* offense any kernel developer
> can do.
>
> Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole *point*
> of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some
> research project.  We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole
> and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some
> crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.
>
> Really.
>
>                    Linus


wow! el tipo no anda con vueltas!
slds!!
Pablo