On 5/21/03 17:58, Jerry Yeager wrote >One thing to note: as developers are more and more keeping their >programs totally inside of the application bundle, the problem you are >referring to (i.e. two different programs installing the same "Y" >thingy in /usr/local/bin/) is becoming less and less of a problem for >un-installers to ponder, which is actually a very good thing as this >same problem has never been completely dealt with in the *nix world. >
This was one of the really big problems with Windoze when I had to use it, 'cuz .dlls would overwrite each other, causing problems. I thought that SOM was supposed to solve this problem. (Translations: dll : dynamically linked (loaded?) library - widgets for adding functionality to MS Windoze - simialr to extensions in Classic (I think) SOM (system object(?) management) was a big selling point of OpenDoc and was implemented in IBM's OS/2 (an operating system far ahead of its time which never was adopted, because IBM continued to bundle MS Windoze on its hardware). OS/2 was from back in the days where Apple and IBM were gonna have a jointly developed OS. OS/2 was IBM's effort in this direction. System 7 was Apple's. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
