[ydl-gen] Question on YDL.net

[Ted Goranson]

Kai Staats wrote on 7/12/06:
>5) TSS does not have plans to update KDE for YDL v4.1. This is due to a
>somewhat complicated web of devel history and delves into the reason YDL v4.1
>shipped as it did. While this has been covered in one or more
>interviews/reviews of v4.1, the quickest summary is that we were caught in a
>hard place last year, trying to maintain binary compat between YDL v4.0 and
>v4.1 for our mission critical customers while upgrading to what would build
>against the mixed FC3, 4, and 5 packages, libraries, and kernel. The result,
>to be honest, was a challenge. We shipped what we did and when we did given
>the best compromise at that time. While v4.1 was (and remains as such) a more
>complete, out-of-the-box OS than FC5 (in terms of support of hw), it does
>fall behind in the version of many packages.
>
>6) We have a beta of YDL v5.0 in-house, built cleanly from FC5. This is
>initially for our OEM BSP customers with plans to release in Q4 of this year.

Many thanks for the clear and reassuring answer. I will upgrade to 
4.1, and thence later.

Best, Ted
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Ted Goranson
Sirius-Beta