On 9/25/23 10:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
In this case, a simple bug needs to be fixed. No interface change. The
number of packages to update is the number with copies of this buggy code.
Copies count, references (shred libraries) are free.
The workaround for the hard problem was to use static linking, which
makes distributing bug-fixes painfully difficult. That was one of the
major motivations for shared libraries in the first place.
I guess that I've been spoiled by C's maturity. The core libraries tend
to mutate slowly and the Committee has as a base that revisions should not
break programs (but they may break implementations).
At Sun, we committed a 5-person team under a founder (David J. Brown) to
beating immature changes into the ground. It was too dangerous to leave
to a volunteer community, although numerous volunteer efforts helped us
greatly.
--dave
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