On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 22:48:52 Christoph Cullmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 22:12:00 Christoph Cullmann wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> And the big benefit: One can install my alpha crashy something quality > >> Kate > >> > >> bundle with its Qt something version and some imaginary Krita bundle that > >> > >> is installed in parallel will NOT be borked! > > > > are you more or less arguing against all the benefits of shared libraries > > as found in Linux distributions ? ;-) > > if you are not part of the distro packages or some build service that > creates pacakges for ALL distros * versions you want to support: yes. > > I package our company's software now since close to 10 years for > Windows/Linux and no, never ever there was any chance to use system > libraries beside the most basic ones, and even there, to support old > systems, you will need to ship some local copies (starting from libstdc++ > to libxcb). To use something like the Qt libraries shipped with the distros > is just out of question, if you try to target stuff >= Red Hat 5 with ONE > package.
Same here, we do the same, also for RHEL >= 5. OT: But we get along without shipping libstdc++ or similar low level libraries. What we do is, where necessary, tweak/comment out configure checks which would make our software require newer versions of other libs. Alex
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