On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't help it, this one struck me as quite funny, after all the > shared library discussions we've had on this list. > > "A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to > automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies > (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run > out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated > work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with > dependency version hell. " > > OK, so this is better than static linking how? Oh yeah you get the > fonts. And all the incompatible programs across distros. > > Isn't this what Apple does recommend you do with application bundles? Ship the whole directory (.app) with all requisite frameworks and libs? > So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex > that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the > program! > > Un-beeeeee-lievable. > > The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems > not to apply in software nowadays. > > ron > >
