On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> > And another important feature of shared libraries is, that when
> > some lib is updated, importing programs dont have to be recompiled.
> > What's the Plan9 solution here ?
>
> We recompile the relevant executables. The speed of kencc makes this
> much less painful than you might expect. It also happens very rarely
> on plan9 - I cannot remember the last time we had a "big" pull.


> It also neatly sidesteps the issue that different
> applications can need different versions of a single
> shared library. This is a real problem on some OSs
> (see 9fans passim).
>
>
The solution to needing different shared libraries for different
applications is of course to distribute them with the binary in a bundle,
which makes a lot less sense than just statically linking it to begin with.


> -Steve
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