Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,...
by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:48PM
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Also there is value in being able to fix a library without having to recompile everything.
Number of times I have benefited from this process: 0 (AFAIK)
Number of times this process has hosed previously-working applications and components: too many to count
On Windows, this "feature" was called "DLL Hell," and was generally considered a bad thing. Nothing has fundamentally changed since it was a common practice for every installer to have its way with c:\windows, IMHO. (Admittedly shared MSVC runtimes aren't as big a problem as the Winsock-provider-du-jour was, but still... there is simply no point.)
Number of times I have benefited from this process: 0 (AFAIK)
Number of times this process has hosed previously-working applications and components: too many to count
On Windows, this "feature" was called "DLL Hell," and was generally considered a bad thing. Nothing has fundamentally changed since it was a common practice for every installer to have its way with c:\windows, IMHO. (Admittedly shared MSVC runtimes aren't as big a problem as the Winsock-provider-du-jour was, but still... there is simply no point.)