SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 3:23 UTC (Thu) by ccurtis (guest, #49713)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by Tara_Li
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

It seems fairly plain to me. Look at all the different flavors of ARM and MIPS and VIA and A3 and Atom cores that people carry around in their handheld computers. When the day comes that you don't have to depend on an iStore or the App Market or Obj-C or Dalvik or whatever, and you just want to ship your 5MB game binary with its 500MB of textures without making your customers dig through lists of every cell phone model in existence, FatELF might actually be rather handy.

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 5:01 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (2 responses)

IF that day comes (I'm skeptical -- architectural diversity seems to be increasing), I expect kernel devs will be more receptive to it.

Until then, it seems like you're trying to merge the solution before the problem even exists.

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 13:37 UTC (Thu) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm not necessarily arguing for FatELF, but isn't anticipating the market and having a solution before something becomes a problem the very definition of innovation?

Personally, I like the idea of having solutions rather than problems.

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 17:11 UTC (Thu) by chad.netzer (subscriber, #4257) [Link]

Except when you guess wrong, and burden everyone with a worse problem. (Many examples exist, though RAMBUS jumps to mind)

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 20:02 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Then ship the application as a .jar (or whatever the virtual machine du jour might be) file. Problem solved.

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 25, 2010 15:45 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

As has been mentioned above, this problem is already solved. Shell scripts run on pretty much all Linux devices and are perfectly adequate for choosing the right binary to execute.