Re: [9fans] Binary format

[Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>]

On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> * Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Okay, but then (as an admin) you have to know which apps have
> to be recompiled. For a small system this might be okay, but
> that doesnt scale well ;-o
>
> A possible solution could be an package management system which
> knows dependencies and so can tell what to rebuild.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
>
>> 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).
>
> Actually, that's just a matter of clean dependency handling.
> Include an API/ABI version in the filename, etc.
>
>
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