Fedora project leader Matthew Miller weighs in (TechRepublic)

TechRepublic has published aninterview with Fedora project leader Matthew Miller.

Basically, every modern language provides a lot of building blocksthat usually come from other smaller open-source projects. Theseare libraries, and they do things like format text, handle images,connect to databases and deal with talking across theinternet. Projects like Fedora or Debian used to work to try topackage up every such library in our own format, made to worknicely with everything else.

Now, every new language - Rust, for example - comes with its owntools to manage these, and they don't work nicely together with ourold way. The sheer scale is overwhelming - for Rust alone, as Ichecked just now there are 81,541 such libraries. We can't keep upwith repackaging all of that into our own format, let alone thatplus all of the other languages. We need to approach thisdifferently in order to still provide a good solution to softwaredevelopers.

I think a lot of that will need machine learning and automation ...we'll need to keep adjusting so we can provide the value that Linuxdistributions give users in trust, security and coherentintegration at an exponential scale.