A Number Of Fedora 27 Features Get Pushed Back To Fedora 28

[Gusar]

And the buildtimes for Qt can easily be longer than entire Linux kernel.

There's nothing weird about that. You're comparing two very different beasts. The kernel is very low level. A customized config builds in less than 3 minutes on a modern CPU. Even a generic distro kernel won't be much, probably around 20 minutes. A web engine though, that's an entirely different world. Different language (mostly C++, while the kernel is largely C), plus the web has gotten extremely bloated in the past few years.

There's just something seriously wrong with Webkit/Webengine....

Not sure if it can be classified as "wrong", but.. on my Haswell i5, it takes less than 20 minutes to compile Firefox Nightly (around 14 minutes for the 52 ESR version), but it takes almost two hours to compile Chromium. Since Webengine is basically Chromium wrapped in Qt, it's by far the largest component of Qt. How long does it take to compile the rest of Qt? Longer than GTK for sure, but can't be insanely long.

[nanonyme]

As usual. The "fix" comes with regressions. Good luck on keeping the hear-say alive. Oh and even better luck on keeping kde and QT buildable

And the buildtimes for Qt can easily be longer than entire Linux kernel. There's just something seriously wrong with Webkit/Webengine....

[starshipeleven]

As usual. The new version comes with regressions. Good luck on keeping the hearsay alive. Oh and even better luck on keeping GNOME usable

fixed. Also hear-say -> hearsay

[danielnez1]

As usual. The "fix" comes with regressions. Good luck on keeping the hear-say alive. Oh and even better luck on keeping kde and QT buildable

Oh the irony.

[starshipeleven]

Like GNOME. Every update comes with multiple theme and extension breakage.

fixed.

[starshipeleven]

There is no need to be fanboi about it. The GNOME surge benefits around 30% of dekstop users. Maybe I should find something more useful to do with my time?

fixed.

[starshipeleven]

Best feature of F27 will be a more formal way to ignore alleged blocker bugs on irrelevant desktops. Wise call.

Yeah, GNOME needs all help it can get to rewrite stuff that works already.

Meanwhile, stuff that can actually be of interest to people, like 32-bit UEFI support is getting postponed.

[Anvil]

I always found the php 7.2 deadline a bit tight - it seemed that the final release was scheduled until after Fedora 27.

i thinjk you'll find the F27 is the one thats tight which is my guess is why there removing Features, i still cant see why it cant get in, i mean Fedora has shipped a Belta or RC's of Xserver before, same could be said about Java9

[You-]

I always found the php 7.2 deadline a bit tight - it seemed that the final release was scheduled until after Fedora 27.

[Anvil]

this comes to no surprise really, but you'll still be able to get PHP7.2 from remi's Repo . https://rpms.remirepo.net/