brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

Serge E. Hallyn serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Mon Oct 4 18:09:59 BST 2010


Quoting Barry Warsaw (barry at canonical.com):
> On Oct 03, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
> 
> >From an application developer's point of view, that's an issue because
> >it means that with every new Ubuntu release, you potentially have to
> >update your application to deal with changes in libraries. In addition,
> >you are under pressure to do that before the new Ubuntu release
> >otherwise your application may fail to work completely for a given
> >release.
> 
> I'm not sure how that differs from my experience with iPhone apps.  IOW,
> whenever a new iOS is released, I usually have several apps that are either
> outright broken, or just get compatibility updates in the weeks following
> release.

Great, then this would be a valuable feature we have that iphone
doesn't.

I've got to agree with Bruno.

-serge



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