From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 27 15:22:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B3837B51C for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:22:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16797; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:49:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:49:53 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: kdelibs port broken? Cc: Alex Zepeda , Will Andrews , Joel Ray Holveck , bwoods2@uswest.net, Maxim Sobolev , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Feb-00 Chuck Robey wrote: > > This happens for tcl, gtk, qt.. There are quite a number. (at least 3! ;) > Can I ask you, why could this not have been done through a system of > symlinks and a little batch-file to switch them? How could you run multiple applications which use different versions of the same library? A lot of them have support files which are loaded by the library when ITs loaded by the app. You would end up with all sorts of nasty race conditions when people run multiple apps etc.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message