Yes, but being forced to purchase more storage & memory doens't sound like a solution to me. I like to use my resources for things that i deem as important, not because some foolish programmer doesn't understand good coding practices.
Joel Hammer wrote: > 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 8:30pm up 80 days, 3:17, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.28, 0.46 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
