On 05/20/2016 08:48 AM, Dean Troyer wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org
<mailto:z...@debian.org>> wrote:
I am *NOT* buying that doing static linking is a progress. We're
back 30
years in the past, before the .so format. It is amazing that some
of us
think it's better. It simply isn't. It's a huge regression, for
package
maintainers, system admins, production/ops, and our final users. The
only group of people who like it are developers, because they just
don't
need to care about shared library API/ABI incompatibilities and
regressions anymore.
I disagree, there are certainly places static linking is appropriate,
however, I didn't mention that at all. Much of the burden with Python
dependency at install/run time is due to NO linking. Even with C, you
make choices at build time WRT what you link against, either
statically or dynamically. Even with shared libs, when the interface
changes you have to re-link everything that uses that interface. It
is not as black and white as you suggest.
And I say that as a user, who so desperately wants an install process
for OSC to match PuTTY on Windows: 1) copy an .exe; 2) run it.
dt
[Thomas, I have done _EVERY_ one of the jobs above that you listed, as
a $DAY_JOB, and know exactly what it takes to run production-scale
services built from everything from vendor packages to house-built
source. It would be nice if you refined your argument to stop leaning
on static linking as the biggest problem since stack overflows. There
are other reasons this might be a bad idea, but I sense that you are
losing traction fixating on only this one.]
Static linking Bad. We can debate why elsewhere.
Go with dynamic linking is possible, and should be what the
distributions target. This is a solvable problem.
/me burns bikeshed and installs a Hubcycle/Citibike kiosk.
--
Dean Troyer
dtro...@gmail.com <mailto:dtro...@gmail.com>
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