On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 at 07:59, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
3) Over time, bundled libraries tend to become forked versions. And worse, privately forked versions. If three python apps all use slightly different older versions of libfoo-python and have backported fixes, added new features, etc it is a nightmare for a system administrator or packager to get them running with a single version from the system library or forward port them. And because they're private forks the developers lose out on collaborating on security, bugfixes, etc because they are doing their work in isolation from the other forks.
This is one of the things that I really disliked about Java when I had to work with it: the culture there is that you ship a zip bundle that has all the libraries in it, at some unknown version or another. I fortunately did not run into any of those security or version-drift/bug issues in the relatively short time I worked with it, but I could feel those issues looming in the background and it made my skin crawl :( I'm very happy that Gentoo keeps the libraries separate when it packages Java applications. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
