"Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he'll tell you that it's having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and ... you get the idea."
Nope. He lost me right off the bat. Maybe I just don't use strange libraries, but getting things working across the Linuxes has never been a major problem for me, apart from debian/ubuntu's broken menu system, and this app sure won't fix that. And it's certainly not the available libraries that cause problems. The things that bite me are the wider unixes: Sparcs have numlock as mod3 instead of mod2, BSDs don't use GNU make by default, Apples have one mouse button, cygwin can't store much on the stack, etc. And honestly, compatibility issues are maybe 1% of the bugs I fix. This is no silver bullet.
But if I had to say something about the disparity of Linuxes, it would be all the different compiler versions and flags that people use.
Nope. He lost me right off the bat. Maybe I just don't use strange libraries, but getting things working across the Linuxes has never been a major problem for me, apart from debian/ubuntu's broken menu system, and this app sure won't fix that. And it's certainly not the available libraries that cause problems. The things that bite me are the wider unixes: Sparcs have numlock as mod3 instead of mod2, BSDs don't use GNU make by default, Apples have one mouse button, cygwin can't store much on the stack, etc. And honestly, compatibility issues are maybe 1% of the bugs I fix. This is no silver bullet.
But if I had to say something about the disparity of Linuxes, it would be all the different compiler versions and flags that people use.