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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by Joker_vD on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:11PM (#24620769)
Introduce the project- nay, the organization-wide mangling scheme! Every symbol is now required to have the library's version name in its name, may as well throw in some namespaces there too. Then maintain some sort of metainfo of what part is requiring what versions, and what project is providing what versions, and... and well, at this stage you're kinda reinventing the package management, but at least you don't need a custom linker, which is a good thing, right?
Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by w0utert on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:32AM (#24626913)
The not-so-funny part is that it would probably be about the same effort to do that compared to convincing everybody to use shared linking for these kinds of things >_<