Re: Windows and DLLs

[David Jeske <jeske home chat net>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:51:04PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >  Y'all might be interested in knowing about Microsoft's solution to their DLL
> >  Hell problem; it's called Windows Installer.
> [yadda yadda]
> 
> Can we *PLEASE* end this discussion?  It is completely off-topic for
> this list.

I completely disagree, Gnome is challenged with making a desktop for
Linux. At least some of this is in the interest of widening Linux's
acceptance by making it more accessable to average users. I believe
that problems average users have with mainstream systems is of the
utmost importance.

In addition, Gnome is also intended to widen the Linux applications
base by providing a standard desktop environment for developers to
write for. If this application based does widen sufficiently, we are
going to start to run into the same kinds of problems that other
mainstream systems with lots of applications (namely Windows) run
into. Discussing these issues before Gnome has finalized how
everything works, while it's early enough to do something about it
where possible, is crucial.

-- 
David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + jeske@chat.net