"David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)" wrote:
> Nobody was talking about GLIBC, Moshe was talking about GLIB, the
> library that is under GTK+, which provides safe and portable
> alternatives to the libc5/6(aka glibc) and everything else.
>
> GLib (iirc) runs on IRIX, AIX, Windows, Linux, *BSD, DOS, BeOS, MacOS,
> PalmOS, and anything else you can think of.
>
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> >
> > Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > To reiterate my point: use glib instead of libc. Glib is *very* portable.
> >
> > What do you mean? What if your target platform does not have glibc?
> > This might be outside of your control... Come to think of it, it
> > usually *is* outside of your control. Welcome to the real world :-(.
Sorry, ppl , but IMHO Oleg had pointed out a very strong point. Imagine
you are to distribute small utility, which takes, say, 300 kb. But, instead
of using libc and debugging your code to death, you decided to rely on glib
to provide it to you. As a programmer, you are to give out the cleanest code
one can provide (well, we are talking very hypothetical programmer here).
But as code provider, you must make sure that your code will fit into its
place without headaches.
In such a case you are to wind up by including glib in your distribution.
This can make sence for a large and supervisiored program, but the rule of
thumb says that distributable program must be distributable with less overhead
than its size.
#ifdef DO_NOT_TRY_IT_AT_HOME
as an example with completely different, yet same, nature, consider yourself
producing cocaine in Columbia. Well, little effort, big money etc. Some
danger to be caught and vivisected, or vivisected, and then cauhgt, but
forget it. We are talknig technology. <sad smile>
The algorythm is following: take a bag of coke leaves, and pur it with
sulfuric acid. After 10 hors or so, wash it and sell it. 10 litres of
acid per bag.
However, in real world, cocaine is not produced in situ, but, rather
at some distance. Therefore, coke leaves are dropped in big pool and
being washed with acid. One will get a lot more product using the
proper technology, but real world says his naah, and you are wasting
acid, and you are wasting coke leaves, just to make the production
line working.
#endif
Again, welcome to Real World of Real users. Forget all hope, yer, who enters
there.
P.S. That was rather strange example. However, there is huge cocaine industry
out
there, and, unfortunatly for us and our children it works. Let me say this third
time:
welcome to hell.
>
> >
> > --
> > Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
> > And wit depends on dilatory time." - W. Shakespeare.
> >
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