Re: [9fans] Announce: standalone libixp

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 18:47 +0200, Uriel wrote:
> > Most of your changes don't make any sense to me, pkg-config is at best
> > stupid, and shared libraries are plain disgraceful.
> 
>   I apologize if I already had sent it out, but I'm close to putting
> a petition out there to ban the shared libraries. 

A petition ? Addressed to whom ? 

> http://blogs.sun.com/rvs/entry/what_does_dynamic_linking_and

Starts w/ typical, stupid U$ flaming: $what_I_hate is like communism.
Next logic step would be declaring dynamic linking "unamerican".
Well, those ideas are really irrelevant to me. 

To address some of your points:

* Broken compiler: I don't know which compiler you're talkig about.
  Never ever seen such trouble in recent 15 years.
  An clean namespace separation would have done the trick.
  
* Bug vs. feature: with clean development methods, it's really 
  clear what some module should do. First design, then implement
  and test. If you just hack up something w/o any clear spec,
  you can easily run into trouble. In that case: your fault.
  
* Control over shared code: I *have* control over *all* code on 
  my systems. If necessary, I'm able to lay hands on every module.
  Actually this is only rarely necessary. I'm not dependent on
  some "vendor".

* Commercial or half-Commercial stuff like OO: I'm neither resposible 
  for their unability to produce clean code, nor do I care. If I, for
  some reason get interested in such an package, ie. Mozilla, I just
  break off my own branch and cleanup things as I feel its right.
  This includes kicking off all these bundled 3rd-party libs.


Okay, this was alread too much useless traffic on that issue. 
If you don't like my branch, simply don't use it. But please stop
trying to evangelize me, I'll redirect those efforts to 
/dev/null immediately.

We all have our different destinies and different ways of thinking
or coding. IMHO it's best if we try to learn from each other with
leaving others in peace, instead of wasting resoures by stupid 
conflicts.


cu
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