On 31/05/2010, at 12:31 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:53:45 +0930 > Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On 31/05/2010, at 10:44 AM, Marc Spitzer wrote: >>> also lets not forget about LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues, >> No Mac or Windows user would encounter these. > > You forget that the Mac is a Unix box. It supports LD_LIBRARY_PATH. In > an ideal world - where every developer did things right - you'd never > need it on any system. We don't live in such a world. In particular, > OSX tends to ship with obsolete versions of *very* popular Unix > libraries. So much so that you wind up having to choose between > building obsolete versions of the tools you want, losing valuable > features and bug fixes; or building current versions of libraries in > the system, leading to having to make sure your code and only your > code finds it - even when you're dynamically loading frameworks that > want to use the system version of the same library. > > On Windows, the problem is so common it's been given the name "DLL > hell".
I build installers that include chains of co-dependent base libraries with isolating setups (programatically mutated binary and load paths) for multiple platforms, so I know about this issue, but I'm talking specifically about SWT which doesn't suffer from that problem. Antony Blakey -------------------------- CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd Ph: 0438 840 787 Hi, I'd like to do $THING. I know that $SOLUTION_A and $SOLUTION_B will do it very easily and for a very reasonable price, but I don't want to use $SOLUTION_A or $SOLUTION_B because $VAGUE_REASON and $CONTRADICTORY_REASON. Instead, I'd like your under-informed ideas on how to achieve my $POORLY_CONCEIVED_AMBITIONS using Linux, duct tape, an iPod, and hours and hours of my precious time. -- Slashdot response to an enquiry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
