And those that statically link, with no justification, will be placed on the upcoming Hall of Shame page.
/rafael On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Eric Schultz <wwaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lee, > > I think that one of the main reasons open source software often uses static > libraries, especially on Windows, is that it gets around a lot of the > dependency issues. You don't have to worry about dynamically loading a > strange version of a dependency library if you never dynamically load > libraries. CoApp intends to solve this problem so I think developers should > choose to release non-statically bound libraries whenever possible and > hopefully they will. > > Eric > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Lee Fisher <blib...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Certainly CoApp supports the use of static libraries; >>> >> >> Excellent news, thanks. >> >> and there is really only a small set of really valuable reasons one might >>> want to use static code. >>> >>> The top of that list, is[...] >>> >> >> that the compiler and operating system support the use of static libs, and >> existing software use them, so CoApp should try to support the platforms' >> tools and existing projects, and not cause additional restrictions that'll >> prevent adoption of this toolchain. IMO, at least. :-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers<https://launchpad.net/%7Ecoapp-developers> >> Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers<https://launchpad.net/%7Ecoapp-developers> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers<https://launchpad.net/%7Ecoapp-developers> > Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers<https://launchpad.net/%7Ecoapp-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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