* Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > We recompile the relevant executables. The speed of kencc makes this > much less painful than you might expect. It also happens very rarely > on plan9 - I cannot remember the last time we had a "big" pull.
Okay, but then (as an admin) you have to know which apps have to be recompiled. For a small system this might be okay, but that doesnt scale well ;-o A possible solution could be an package management system which knows dependencies and so can tell what to rebuild. > It also neatly sidesteps the issue that different applications > can need different versions of a single shared library. This > is a real problem on some OSs (see 9fans passim). Actually, that's just a matter of clean dependency handling. Include an API/ABI version in the filename, etc. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [email protected] mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
