On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:21:10 -0500, Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I know dependencies are a pain, but so is Windows when some program being
> install takes it upon itself to update various DLLs that a new app needs, but
> breaks existing apps in the process. It's such a problem that evidently XP
> has given up on the shared DLLs and each app will now have them in their own >
folder.
This is a VERY BAD idea. All it does is lead to resource (drive space, memory,
CPU usage, etc.) wastage. Why is The GIMP only about 20MB when inatalled, while
Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro can take up hundreds of megs? Because The
GIMP relies on what's already there. The developers don't have to bother with
reinventing the wheel; they can use shared libraries like libjpeg and libpng to
do simple things like displaying images, giving coders more time to improve
their own app. If you upgrade your libjpeg (which can display JPEGs) and libpng
(which can display PNGs), you will be upgrading _all_ the applications that use
those libs, including Mozilla and Konqueror.
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