> Hi, > > +1 for having both shared and static MinGW libraries. > > The main reason why they're banned from Fedora is because of security > issues. On Win32 this doesn't really make any sense as there is no > central package manager which can update libraries. At the moment, > software developers need to bundle the .dll's along with their > application anyway, so it doesn't really matter if these libraries are > shared or static.
Since the .dlls will be bundled with an application anyways, .dlls bring only negative effects: (a) bigger total file size (b) runtime relocations (c) more complicated installation _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
