home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: vaxb.isc.rit.edu!MJP3783
- From: mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: YASL (was: AsynchIO (was: fastest file read method ??))
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 17:39:01 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- Message-ID: <4eb3jl$scj@news.isc.rit.edu>
- References: <w9YbsMD4ACazz9@jeff.dame.shnet.org> <w+RYXMD4FC8aRz1@_crisi.blackbox.shnet.org> <4dsalp$t68@news1.halcyon.com> <4du0ju$84b@news.sdd.hp.com> <4e2e76$9k3@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <4e3j8v$jd0@news.sdd.hp.com> <4e7si4$ore@tuegate.tue.nl>,<4e8asc$rht@news.sdd.hp.com>
- Reply-To: mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu
- NNTP-Posting-Host: vaxb.isc.rit.edu
-
- In article <4e8asc$rht@news.sdd.hp.com>, Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com> writes:
- >leon@esrac.ele.tue.nl (Leon Woestenberg) wrote:
- >
- >>A shared library is only stupid, when it isn't shared. Now of course we
- >>can all link it into our programs, but we can also install it onto
- >>the users system. Note that this way, your program automagically profits
- >>from updates.
- >>
- >>Just my opinion,
- >
- >My opinion as such differs from yours. I have over a dozen so-called
- >shared libraries in my LIBS: directory that are shared by ONE program,
- >this is SHARING? What uses hyperion.library and centurion.library? One
- >program that I'm aware of. If something else does, I don't have it.
- >
- >In my opinion, I think programmers would be doing the Amiga community a
- >great service if they refrained from releasing shared libraries until
- >there was a need to do so. How? Well, I certainly have no issue with
- >releasing code as a LINK library. If it becomes popular from that point,
- >then I think the demand would warrant moving into shared library
- >territory. BUT -- until the need was evident to have it as shared, at
- >least all the code would be in one nice, easy-to-remove chunk fo code.
-
- If people released their libraries with documentation so that others could use
- them, that would help. I think that (MHO) people should release libraries
- because the libraries have useful routines that alot of people could use rather
- than to reduce their code size...
-
- >
- >Why do you think people are starting to make noises for uninstallers for
- >the Amiga? Every program they dl off of Aminet seens to have another
- >new, strange, and enigmatic shared library that is used no where else. If
- >Call it the "Library of the Day Club".
- >
- >
-