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[Gábor Paller]

" I don't think it's going to be
quite that simple in practice, but we understand the driver."

I know that in theory, separating frameworks that do nasty things, e.g. use
persistent storage at a predetermined location and corrupting the other
version's data is impossible. Still, Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu do this
routinely. I have GTK2 and GTK3 installed on my Ubuntu desktop and they
coexist peacefully. Android also solved this problem. Normally the solution
may be as simple as a consistent directory layout. Snappy used to have that
layout.

Regards,
Gabor

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 01/11/15 09:20, Gábor Paller wrote:
> > All I say that OSGi went through this, Say, you have framework1.0 and you
> > build app1.0 that depends on framework1.0. Later on, you introduce
> > framework2.0 and you build another app, anotherapp1.0 that depends on
> > framework2.0. Now it just so happens that you need to install app1.0 and
> > anotherapp1.0 on the same system. This means that you have to also
> install
> > framework1.0 and framework2.0 at the same time and you have to be able to
> > tell that app1.0 uses framework1.0 and anotherapp1.0 uses framework2.0.
>
> Yes, at a high level we've said that all frameworks should be
> co-installable, for this very reason. I don't think it's going to be
> quite that simple in practice, but we understand the driver.
>
> Mark
>
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