[Fedora-packaging] Re: paragraph on shipping static numerical libs

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon May 28 11:16:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:00:42PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Which sort-of hints shipping static libs is a short-term workaround and
> energy would be better spend making tools like eclipse integrate our
> best-of-breed infrastructure (autoconf, rpm, yum, mock whatever)
> transparently so these people don't have to spend time on plumbing to
> produce modern sofwtare.

I can't see the connection between eclipse and the issues at stake
here... Shipping static libs is not necessarily a short term workaround,
dynamic libs keep changing ABI and one cannot necesarily install
everytime the libs on all the computers he may want to run a program.
How is it related with eclipse???

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Pat




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