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On 30/10/12 22:49, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò |
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> <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu <mailto:flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>> wrote: |
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> On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > In general, I agree...but Boost wasn't intended to be a shared |
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> library, |
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> > so there shouldn't be a conflict there. |
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> But there are shared libraries, and they are not small either. And I'd |
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> rather, say, hunt an RWX section problem (a security problem) with a |
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> single shared library rather than having to hunt it down in a dozen |
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> or so. |
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> Besides, honestly it's not that bad. I think that half the headache that |
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> we're having is due to the slotting more than from boost itself. And the |
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> other half is due to people actually not going to fix their crap because |
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> "oh I can just use the older version" (until a new compiler or C library |
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> comes out). |
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> I've had to do my share of porting to newer boost — and as I said most |
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> of the headaches have been for the build system to find the object, |
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> rather than anything else. |
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> Thank you. That was enlightening. :) |
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