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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by pmoriarty on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:25PM (#19173903)
"Was there not a version of Motif that could be statically linked?"

The GP seems to be confused about the meaning of "shared library", and seems not to be aware of the existence of static libraries -- which would (as you point out) be perfectly usable in the case of Motif.

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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by glangdale on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:47PM (#19175023)
I've heard of static libraries a time or two.

'Perfectly usable' is a bit of a reach given how huge Motif was at the time. I shudder to think about the size of a directory with a bunch of X applications that each snarf in all their dependencies; remember we're talking 1990s.

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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by dmix on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:26PM (#19175740)
Is "GP" a variation of "OP"? I keep seeing it on HN used in that context...
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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by dragonwriter on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:29PM (#19175760)
> Is "GP" a variation of "OP"?

No, GP is “grandparent”, that is, the post two posts upthread from the post in which the term is used (or, in some contexts, the user who posted the post two posts upthread.)

Similarly, GGP is “great grandparent” (3 posts up), and so on.

OP is “original post” or “original poster”, which is (in the general case) a different thing than GP.

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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by dmix on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:38PM (#19175823)
Thank you, I've been curious about this for a long time. Is this a new thing or did I miss the boat on some old message board thing?
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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by dragonwriter on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:43PM (#19175846)
I think I first encountered it on Slashdot a decade or more ago, but I've rarely seen it outside of Slashdot or, more recently, HN, so I think it's a Slashdottism that migrated to HN with Slashdot users.

Though I could be wrong, as my exposure to internet message boards is weirdly eclectic, but far from comprehensive.

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