Good design is in the eye of the beholder. Having a working piece of software install effortlessly is ok with me. I don't mind bloat. I just buy bigger hard drives and more memory.
Joel On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:48:37PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > Joel Hammer wrote: > > I have been happily using acrobat 5.05 on my linux box. > > > > (I am impressed it didn't need an updated anything to install on my > > caldera 2.4 boxes with the 2.2 kernel. Those guys at adobe must know > > something a lot of linux programmers don't. If you want your program > > to be used, make it compatible. Don't make your potential users update > > everytime you release a new version, etc.) > > Err..that's called compiling it as a static binary. Hardly a > revolutionary concept, and not something you'd normally want to do if > you wish to avoid bloatware. So in effect, you're praising bad design. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 10:45pm up 79 days, 5:32, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.24 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
