Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 08:22 -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

> The one flaw to this approach is when the programmer links into a library
> that is thought to be stable but is buggy. Then people are forced to
> install the buggy software which causes problems.
>
> There are good programmers that know the difference and poor/lazy
> programmers that don't care.

!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a programmer, what control could I possibly have on which version of
a library is installed at runtime on some other system? Not all
libraries identify their version to the app, so I could not refuse to
run if the point release does not match some magic list of good ones. At
best, the version of the library is controlled by the name of the .so
file. The program linker (not the code programmer - maybe the
configure/Makefile author) controls that. But that still requires this
magic list of good versions that can be consulted.

Or are you meaning something else?

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