What do dynamic linking and communism have in common?

Re:What do dynamic linking and communism have in common? by abecedarius on Thursday October 22, 2009 @08:53PM (#898049)

Couldn't you get the space efficiencies without the incompatibility headaches by naming the library like libfoo-SHA1_AS_LONG_HEX_STRING.so in addition to libfoo.so.1.2.3? They're already using symlinks in the lib directories.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What do dynamic linking and communism have in common? by wmf on Thursday October 22, 2009 @11:05PM (#898187)

This assumes that libraries are fully parallel-installable, which is often not the case in Unix. I think .NET does something like this, though.

[ Parent | on HN ]