From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jul 19 02:55:25 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <42DC4E78.5030009@highlandsun.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:51:04 -0700 From: Howard Chu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050621 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com Cc: Mark Duckworth , Mint List Subject: Re: [MiNT] WCOWORK implementation : conclusions. References: <200507180121.43340.maurits@bassment.nu> <1121726821.17671.39.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <1121728909.19283.23.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <42DC3FBA.6000508@highlandsun.com> In-Reply-To: <20050718204359.hssz3xi1ak5c8gw4@coolrunningconcepts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: hyc@highlandsun.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com wrote: >> version from newlib. So you can keep your snappy static library load >> times, but still take advantage of bugfixed libraries over the course of > Definately seems like a best of both worlds approach, except that you'd > need some sort of relink-everything script if you replace a known-buggy > library with a fixed one. Yes. The other thing this gives you is the ability to distribute minimal-sized patches for your apps. If you find a bug in a function, just send out the object code for that single function, and your users can relink their binaries with exactly that patch. Of course, you need a good version numbering system to keep your sanity here. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/