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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
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- Subject: YASL (was: AsynchIO (was: fastest file read method ??))
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:24:44 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- 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.
-
- 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".
-
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