Re: FYI: Development Model Change (a.k.a The Road Ahead)

[Arnd Hanses]

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:58:30 +0200 (MEST), Juergen Vigna wrote:

>know that we have at least 2 *.a (libgui.a + libsupport.a) and a bunch
>of *.o in subdirectories (which could also be *.a files)

I know... This question was purely rhetoric.. :)

No, earnestly, some time ago I had a small discussion with Jean-Marc,
where my point was that only using archives like in 1.1.x would not
help much:
Modularity is only enforced when (a) they can be linked to static
objects using only standard libraries and (b) their exports are
dramatically reduced. (This does not imply you are forced to install
*.so modules on your box, you only *can* do so.).

It won't help anybody, if you still continue to export all your soon
10,000 global inter-module  interface symbols; even now you have 3026
public symbol exports (functions and variables) in LyX 1.0.x global
name space.

AH