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? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org