On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't help it, this one struck me as quite funny, after all the
> shared library discussions we've had on this list.
>
> "A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to
> automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies
> (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run
> out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated
> work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with
> dependency version hell. "
>
> OK, so this is better than static linking how? Oh yeah you get the
> fonts. And all the incompatible programs across distros.
>
>
Isn't this what Apple does recommend you do with application bundles?  Ship
the whole directory (.app) with all requisite frameworks and libs?


> So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex
> that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the
> program!
>
> Un-beeeeee-lievable.
>
> The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems
> not to apply in software nowadays.
>
> ron
>
>