Firefox 2 on Dapper

[Freddy Martinez]

the best thing to do is not mix libraries. that is why you put it in /opt.

On 1/16/07, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Did you try to install FF 2 in the /usr branch?
> I ran it from ~/bin/firefox/ would that make it unstable for some reason?
>
> > Another factor is dependencies.  When a Linux app needs a
> > particular lib version, it makes it known and requires you install it.
> > Windows apps just include another version of the DLL in the install.
> Okay this is getting down to it. So a newer distro would have a *totally*
> new
> library (libBlah) that an earlier version would not have and all new
> software
> is thus compiled to talk to libBlah.
> Right, I can see that... but ... why do the API's have to change so often?
> Why
> can't libBlah support the old API's too? I don't code C, so these things
> are
> a little foreign, but I picture a set of functions and/or classes that can
> be
> used by an app, why can't libBlah keep those same names and parameters
> etc,
> just add newer ones on for the newer API?
>
> > This
> > leaves multiple and conflicting versions of particular DLLs on your
> system,
> > leading to instability and unpredictability. Makes windows easier to use
> (n
> > terms of installs), but much more unstable.
> I am not flaming here -- I really have not found Windows from 2000 onwards
> to
> be unstable. It just plain works. I hate it to pieces, don't get me wrong,
> but I won't ascribe problems to it that I have never experienced.
>
> What would be so wrong about having multiple versions of libBlah on a
> system?
> /d
>
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