Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine)

Posted Jan 6, 2011 14:04 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine) by oever
Parent article: Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine)

The "checking dynamically and falling back to our own" is a lot of work, that is hard to check if it works right (i.e., will be broken most of the time), and has all the downsides (bloat, incompatibilities, security risks) than just bundling libraries for very little gain.

Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine)

Posted Jan 8, 2011 0:52 UTC (Sat) by oever (guest, #987) [Link] (1 responses)

I meant checking that the library is exactly the same byte for byte, not that it merely has the same name and version number.

Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine)

Posted Jan 9, 2011 15:48 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

So nobody can fix even minor problems in the library, or use a different compiler, or...