On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
No, not worth the effort as even in the days of GNU libtool it is an endless effort when it comes to true cross-platform solutions like OpenPKG. And beside faster updates in case of security issues (because you don't have to rebuild the application) there is no real advantage in practice. The disadvantages (portability issues) fully destroy the advantages.
What's the actual engineering issue with dynamic vs static? Is it just that there's too many flavors of dynamic linking? Just curious, not questioning at all. 73 de Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG http://openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
