DLL vs Shared Library

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Mar 30 17:35:12 UTC 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Another huge problem, and this comes about from having no real package
> manager with dependancy tracking on Windows, is a separate copy of a
> vb runtime with every app, just in case.

And yet, I've seen _extremely_ knowledgeable Mac users giving that as an
argument against a good package manager.  They think that having every
application completely independent of every other app is better than the
intertwined dependencies of Apt.

Oh, the poor benighted fools...
-- 
derek





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