Re: Merits and uses of static vs. dynamic libraries
On 13 Apr., 18:50, Paavo Helde <pa...@nospam.please.ee> wrote:
SG <s.gesem...@gmail.com> kirjutas:
Another selling point would be IMHO:
You can update a shared library (i.e. bug fixes -- assuming binary
compatibility) without the need to recompile every application that
uses it.
I agree with Bo Persson and James Kanze here
Yes, it's more of a catch-22. But I woulnd't consider it to be that
bad (may really depend on the OS and kind of library).
ability to update single
DLL-s in the customer installation creates more problems than solves. To
get such a thing working one needs quite complicated automatic updater,
which would synchronize the customer installation to the last thoroughly
tested combination of DLL-s.
I was more thinking along the lines of *nix, /usr/lib/ and open source
development. If a buffer overlow bug in zlib is found & fixed and the
new version stays binary-compatible I don't want to have to download
and/or recompile Gimp (or any other program that makes use of this
library). :-)
Cheers!
SG
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