I ran across this on the Starkit mailing list... (Starkits are a way of packaging TCL modules so they are portable across architectures and OS.)
The author laments: "I'm starting to lose the battle with Linux - the dynamic builds will not work on all Linux systems, and the static builds are doing such nasty things in libc nowadays that they too probably won't work without specific libc.so's on your system. Apparently the world is moving towards a state where only Linux distro builders can produce proper binaries, and where a binary no longer works across Linux releases, let alone on another distro (what a total cop-out compared to Windows!). " I thought this battle was fought (and won by at least VMS) back in the 80's. What happened? Is no one fighting the upgradability challange anymore? Isn't Perl, Java, Python, ... having similar issues? Are individual corporate interests winning out over general user/developer interests? Don't Linus and RMS care anymore? Is LSB dead (again)? --Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
