Hi!
On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
Dynamic builds are sometimes a nightmare to align with dependencies
on
different flavors of Linux.
I hear this... but perhaps if compiling and making a binary tarball
isn't as painful as it is now, it wouldn't be as bad to make a binary
tarball for a specific box...
To me the answer is not how to get all of the Linux distributions to
learn to work with what we package, but instead package to their
native types. At least for RPMS this solves the problem. Whenever I
hear someone complain about "dependency hell" for distributions. It
makes me happy that they do software engineering instead of jet repair.
"Hey, watch this, the part fit! Good to fly!"
There is a rat hole you go down when building static binaries, since
the next leap you make is either "write everything yourself so that
you can control it" or "package up all of the libraries you link too".
For certain platforms with immature packaging systems you have no
choice, but those are thankfully minority platforms with the exception
of FreeBSD/OSX. Of course Solaris has a package system, but I have not
met anyone who knows it :)
Cheers,
-Brian
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