From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) From: Jeff Sickel In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:31:34 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] another type of static linking: send all the shared libraries with the program! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e5482da-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 13, 2010, at 5:14 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > Isn't this what Apple does recommend you do with application bundles? = Ship > the whole directory (.app) with all requisite frameworks and libs? That's the recommended approach for certain types of distributions. The = alternative approach is to not do shared/dynamic libraries in the code = you ship. That way the only dynamically linked code is that used in the = system frameworks. Many folks also find that their applications launch = faster when not traversing all sorts of dyldhell. There's still the open-ended question of bundles of loadable modules, if = you need them. -jas