On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:49:12AM +0100, Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because of this. Binaries which link to a SONAME which only exist in > distributions inventing a SONAME don't work elsewhere. Binaries built > on Fedora (and Debian if i'd apply it if shared libs' future in hunspell > is uncertain) are not able to use it somewhere else where only the > "normal" upstream contents are packaged. Of course, binary-only things > suck and you most times have the source to rebuild it, but...
Debian doesn't guaranty binary compatibility of its binaries with other distributions. > (...) > What is your argument exactly for not linking to link against that static > lib? Only because it's static? That argument IMHO doesn't really > score... > Many things link against static libs - simply becaus ethere's no shared > lib (yet) upstream. > > My points are: > - you are blocking usage of superior dicts (hunspell-*) elsewhere > (OOo, enchant/abiword) by not supporting hunspell in Ice* for those > that use OOo or enchant/abiword and some Ice animal. > (And I want to get myspell removed for etch+1...) OTOH, you are blocking better hunspell for ... no reason. Also note what you are asking is not (yet) supported by mozilla. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
