Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> And indeed, this process has already broken. Take a look at: >> >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=opensaml2&arch=ia64&ver=2.4.3-3
> To be honest, for me this thread is just confirming my > prejudice^Wjudgement that C++ is just a bad choice of language for > implementing shared libraries. There's just far too much mess and > instability. It's not my favorite language either (I actually prefer Java, which has a completely different set of problems and challenges), but of course the problem is that we use software written in C++, and some of it is implemented as shared libraries. So one way or the other, we have to figure out how we're going to deal with them. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

