Jasse Jansson wrote:
On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Rod Evans wrote:
I'd like to propose the creation of a new community that focuses
on Dynamic Linking.....
What's wrong with the tools community?
It sounds to me like it belongs there.
Dynamic linking is a core foundation on which our products are built.
Under Solaris, the link-editors, and their related tools are maintained in a
separate consolidation (OS/Net) from the compilation tools. The runtime linker
is felt to be more aligned with the core OS - ld(1) obviously creates the
objects ld.so.1(1) will execute. The other tools analyze or help configure
this dynamic linking environment.
The family of link-editing tools is closely tied together and is maintained by
different engineers than those leading the tools community.
An internal linker-interest alias exists at Sun, and is used to convey questions
and answers regarding the link-editors, but more often to cover generic dynamic
linking issues. Should this community be accepted I hope to redirect this alias
to the community (as the Dtrace folks did), so that more folks can participate.
--
Rod.
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