On Sep 29, 12:01 pm, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:47:22AM -0700, Dos-Man 64 wrote:
>
> > On Sep 25, 8:06 am, Ryan Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 2009-09-24, at 11:02 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > >> From: Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]>
>
> > > >> Would anyone please help to test this out? I need to make sure the
> > > >> output is correct, that all the needed files are in the zip file,
> > > >> that
> > > >> no segmentation faults (related to pointers) are taking place, and
> > > >> that the end user has the proper priviledges to run the executable.
> > > >> Once I am sure it is working correctly, I have to whip up a EULA and
> > > >> upload it somewhere so that people can download it.
>
> > > >>http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=...
>
> > > > Where is the source for this? And what is the license for this
> > > > program. Sounds very fishy to me.
>
> > > Not so much fishy as unconventional. Dos-Man is just new to the Linux
> > > software writing scene, so he just has some catching up to do.
>
> > > Regarding distribution, Dos-Man, you should consider open sourcing
> > > your program. It is quite customary for this sort of program, as is
> > > distributing as source code rather than binary. Zip is also a bit
> > > uncommon in the Linux world, with tarballs (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz,
> > > etc.) being the norm.
>
> > > ~Ryan
>
> > Is there some way I can statically link the GTK+ library to the
> > executable? I seek to avoid the use of runtimes, especially since I
> > have no idea of how to create installation packages. Anyway, I'm a
> > big believer that no self-respecting c or c++ application should ever
> > require any type of external runtimes. That kind of crap is for wimp
> > languages like c#, java, and vb.
>
> Except that trying to run 15 applications using the GTK libraries will take
> up 15 times the memory. Also, there are things like IPC and windowing specs
> that need to be consistent in an Xsession, so all apps need to run the same
> version. You should look into learning how to make packages, it's not as hard
> as you think.
That's fine, but if the user just wants the program to work without
any concern of the memory requirements, and the programmer just wants
the user to be able to use the program without jumping through complex
installation hoops, then it doesn't explain why static linking isn't
one of the available options? I'm not saying it's always preferable,
but sometimes it is.
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