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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hotb.RoBIN.de!alvman.RoBIN.de!not-for-mail From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: SHARED LIBRARIES - THE END Date: 30 May 1993 14:16:03 -0700 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <1ub872INNeuc@alvman.RoBIN.de> References: <PC123.93May22195506@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: alvman.robin.de pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes: >Since beginning the shared library project I have received mailboxes >full of flames every day. If you don't like my way of doing shared >libraries, go and do them yourself. I've got better things to do than >to spend all day debugging an implementation that people don't even >want. So I will not be making a second release of my shared library >package, or supporting the first one. That's too bad. I think You shouldn't let other people discourage you. I am _very_ interested in the shared libs and my opinion is that it is much better to have whatever kind of shared libs than none at all. So please go on and just ignore the noise :-)) >I was going to contribute some other things as well - for example some >fixes to the include files that correct a serious bug. But I don't >think I can be bothered to make a diff, since it'll only get flamed. >Instead I leave finding this bug as an exercise for the reader, armed >with the ANSI document. If you find a bug and want to avoid flames, just send the patches to R. Grimes. He will handle them. >-- >---------------------------------------------+ "A tight hat can be stretched. >Pete Chown, pc123@phx.cam.ac.uk (Internet) | First damp the head with steam > pc123@uk.ac.cam.phx (Janet :-) -+ from a boiling kettle." Andreas -- Andreas Haakh \ ah@alvman.RoBIN.de In den Wingerten 21 \ +49 6150 82904 6100 Darmstadt-Wixhausen \____________________________________