DLL vs Shared Library

[Phillip Susi]

I think you misunderstood the argument.  It isn't that unused shared 
libs waste disk space, it is that it is nice to be able to simply copy a 
program from one machine to another and have it just work, as opposed to 
failing to load because one or more dependent libraries are not also 
installed, or because a bunch of registry entries are missing or 
something.  It is ease of use vs efficiency.

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
> Yea gods, what will the artsy crowd come up with next? First Picasso, 
> then Liberace, now this...
> 
> Since a) innovation will occur and b) it will occur elsewhere[1], it's 
> a given that libs will be updated and changed. Give me the Linux 
> solution any day - it's something an engineer can understand. As for 
> the wasted disk space argument - pffffft. I can code my package 
> manager walk the dependency tree backwards once a month finding and 
> deleting libs not in use anymore
> 
> [1] Bill Joy's second greatest contribution to Unix.
>