Re: Windows and DLLs

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

>>>>> "D" == David Jeske <jeske@home.chat.net> writes:

D> 1) a user wants to use an app which only works with a newer
D> lib. (i.e. he can't install it easily unless he's administrator, or
D> a unix wizard)

He throws it in a directory somewhere and sets his LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

D> 2) a newer micro version of a lib fixes a bug which caused problems
D> with some app, but the fix causes problems with another app.

He writes a wrapper around the broken app which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

D> The only reason UNIX dosn't currently suffer the same kind of lib
D> hell as windows is that there arn't very many apps/libs
D> available. It's not because the UNIX system is that much better.

What do you mean by "lots of apps/libs"?  Do you need thousands?  Unix
has thousands.  

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