>
> : this is great for backwards binary compatability, something Linux
> : has excelled at.
>
> With all due respect, Linux has been worse about this than many other
> platforms, especially where C++ programs are concerned. FreeBSD, for
> example, has been more stable over the past couple of y
: this is great for backwards binary compatability, something Linux
: has excelled at.
With all due respect, Linux has been worse about this than many other
platforms, especially where C++ programs are concerned. FreeBSD, for
example, has been more stable over the past couple of years. SunOS
an
>some significant complexity for developers of libraries. I'm not sure
>how elf handles this -- possibly the program specifies which version
>of the library it's looking for and there's an instancing scheme to
>select one of several releases of a function for cases where there's
>been an interface
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: FTP arrangement"):
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:03 BST
>From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I'm confused. I thought we had an incrementally upgradeable system ?
>What is the purpose of the extra directory ?
>
I would also like to have the capability to switch between multiple versions
of the same library. That would simplify a few multi-platform-GUI sorts
of tasks. Figuring out how to do that using ELF has got to be simpler
than figuring out how to make a shared ELF/a.out library.
It might be _possible
Ian Murdock:
No, I'm not saying this at all. I'm saying that fairly soon our
primary emphasis (from a development point of view) will be the ELF
distribution. We'll still update the a.out distribution, of
course, but it'll become less and less of a priority from a
development point
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