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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:49:53 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, bwoods2@uswest.net, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kdelibs port broken?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000228094953.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002271109260.301-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On 27-Feb-00 Chuck Robey wrote:
> > This happens for tcl, gtk, qt.. There are quite a number. (at least 3! ;)
>  Can I ask you, why could this not have been done through a system of
>  symlinks and a little batch-file to switch them?

How could you run multiple applications which use different versions of the
same library? A lot of them have support files which are loaded by the
library when ITs loaded by the app. You would end up with all sorts of nasty
race conditions when people run multiple apps etc..

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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