Wild and crazy times for the development tree

[Ian Pilcher]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> Indeed.  There is a tendency in OSS overall it seems for apps/libs/etc.
> to sprout more and more dependencies over time just in general.  It is
> very observable on the desktop, and in desktopish applications, but it
> is also observable at the commandline and underlying OS level too.
> 
> Tough problem to solve I think.
> 

Partly due to the UNIX philosophy of compile-time feature selection.
It's solvable via dlopen, etc.; it would be nice to see the toolchains
help out here.

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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