On 08 Nov 2012 Geoff McLane wrote: > But maybe we would be better off removing the > SIMGEAR_SHARED option if WIN32 ;=))
No objections. Indeed it wasn't intended for Windows. I'll remove the option for WIN32. > And of course, I really wonder WHY we added > a 'shared' version of SG at all... but that > is another topic... > I assume someone had a 'good' only-for-UNIX > reason ;=)) Exactly. It improved support for Linux distributions a lot, which do have fixed rules to use shared libs. Since shared lib support is now in SG, all distros can/could drop their local makefile patches, which they had to use before. It has removed a major obstacle preventing distros from quickly updating to the latest FG release: they no longer need to wait for a volunteer to update their local makefile patches for every single FG release. Please let's not discuss the reasons here why Linux packagers are so strict with using shared libs (they have very good reasons), it's futile and beyond our power anyway... cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
