On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:06:53AM +0100, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Friday 28 Oct 2005 22:32, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > Our web browser (I wrote 1/4 of it) is a single executable. > > Everything is compiled in, including font data. > > A degenerate solution is no help for the general case. gEDA uses > multiple third-party libraries, and comprises multiple independently
Links uses multiple third-party libraries as well: libpng libjpeg libtiff openssl libX libSDL SVGAlib libgpm CL< > developed applications. > > Yes, gEDA needs to get better at installing and uninstalling. I'm sure > this is known by the developers. However developers are not the best > people to make this happen; they spend all day compiling bits and > pieces, but they hardly ever run the install tool or the uninstall > tool, and they never get into .so hell. People like you and me are the > best people to work on this - users without a full and correct > development environment and with strange and unexpected machine > configurations. > > Since I'm the best person for the job, I'm not going to complain that > nobody is fixing it. > > -- > Richard Urwin
