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