Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-26 Thread Black, Michael (IS)
ay 25, 2012 3:57 PM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely? Just picking a random post to make my reply to. I truly wish I could get access to an external sqlite library to load

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Kevin Benson
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Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Jonas Malaco Filho
. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM, wrote: Message: 60 Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:45:07 + From: "Black, Michael (IS)" To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Haworth
ate: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:45:07 + > From: "Black, Michael (IS)" > To: General Discussion of SQLite Database > Subject: Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is > recommended for all applications." mean, precisely? > Message-ID: > Content

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Michael Schlenker
Am 25.05.2012 14:27, schrieb Pavel Ivanov: >> With regard to the second issue, several experienced people, including >> Richard Hipp, have expressed the opinion in more than one occasion >> that statically linking sqlite avoids some problems that can happen >> otherwise. > > OTOH, all people invol

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Simon Slavin
On 25 May 2012, at 1:45pm, "Black, Michael (IS)" wrote: > We used to have tons of problems on Solaris due to shared libraries. > Numerous incompatibilities across multiple versions of Solaris. Static link > always worked. There are actually three options (depending on what's available on yo

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Black, Michael (IS)
T :Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely? OTOH, all people involved in supporting Linux distributions advocate against static inclusion and for use of dynamic libraries all the time so that if some bug or security vulner

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Pavel Ivanov wrote: > > With regard to the second issue, several experienced people, including > > Richard Hipp, have expressed the opinion in more than one occasion > > that statically linking sqlite avoids some problems that can happen > > otherwise. > > OTOH, a

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Pavel Ivanov
> With regard to the second issue, several experienced people, including > Richard Hipp, have expressed the opinion in more than one occasion > that statically linking sqlite avoids some problems that can happen > otherwise. OTOH, all people involved in supporting Linux distributions advocate agai

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Sidney Cadot wrote: > What I was wondering is whether the SQLite docs (written by you, I > presume) express a preference for using SQLite3 via inclusion of the > source (amalgamation) into ones project, vs. using a pre-compiled > library (as could be provided, for

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-25 Thread Sidney Cadot
Hi, > I approve of your translation. That interpretation concerns the relative merits of using the separate sources vs the amalgamation, if I understand correctly. Barring special circumstances, the use of the amalgamation is the preferred way; that is understood. What I was wondering is whether

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: > > On 24 May 2012, at 6:56pm, Sidney Cadot wrote: > > >> Why risk ending up with an unexpected (possibly old) version > >> by linking at runtime just to save users less than 300K of disk > >> space? > > > > But that's an argument against shar

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Simon Slavin
On 24 May 2012, at 6:56pm, Sidney Cadot wrote: >> Why risk ending up with an unexpected (possibly old) version >> by linking at runtime just to save users less than 300K of disk >> space? > > But that's an argument against shared linking in general. > > I am just curious what idea this particu

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Sidney Cadot
> However, the OP has indicated little that would allow us to guess whether > his project should follow the norm or not. I think my question is independent of my particular project; in fact, I am not working on an SQLite project at the moment. The reason I asked this question is that I have a dis

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Marc L. Allen
--Original Message- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Sidney Cadot Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:56 PM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all appl

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Sidney Cadot
> Why risk ending up with an unexpected (possibly old) version > by linking at runtime just to save users less than 300K of disk > space? But that's an argument against shared linking in general. I am just curious what idea this particular statement on this particular help-page (specific to SQLit

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Sidney Cadot
> Yes.  SQLite is so small there's really no reason to make a separate library > of it. Well, my Linux distribution may provide a "libsqlite3-dev" package, which makes linking to a recent version of sqlite as simple as adding LDLIBS=-lsqlite3 to the Makefile. By going that path you ensure that re

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Larry Brasfield
On May 24, Dan Kennedy wrote: On 05/24/2012 10:53 PM, Larry Brasfield wrote: >> On the support page http://www.sqlite.org/howtocompile.html, it says: >> >> "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." >> >> Is this a general recommendation, to use the amalgamated source file

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Dan Kennedy
On 05/24/2012 10:53 PM, Larry Brasfield wrote: On the support page http://www.sqlite.org/howtocompile.html, it says: "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." Is this a general recommendation, to use the amalgamated source file as the preferred way of including SQLite f

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Simon Slavin
On 24 May 2012, at 4:43pm, Sidney Cadot wrote: > On the support page http://www.sqlite.org/howtocompile.html, it says: > >"The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." > > Is this a general recommendation, to use the amalgamated source file > as the preferred way of in

Re: [sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Larry Brasfield
On the support page http://www.sqlite.org/howtocompile.html, it says: "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." Is this a general recommendation, to use the amalgamated source file as the preferred way of including SQLite functionality in one's application, rather th

[sqlite] What does "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." mean, precisely?

2012-05-24 Thread Sidney Cadot
Dear all, On the support page http://www.sqlite.org/howtocompile.html, it says: "The use of the amalgamation is recommended for all applications." Is this a general recommendation, to use the amalgamated source file as the preferred way of including SQLite functionality in one's application,