Re: Windows and DLLs

[luther maxime u-strasbg fr]

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:08:00PM -0700, David Jeske wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:51:04PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > >  Y'all might be interested in knowing about Microsoft's solution to their DLL
> > >  Hell problem; it's called Windows Installer.
> > [yadda yadda]
> > 
> > Can we *PLEASE* end this discussion?  It is completely off-topic for
> > this list.
> 
> I completely disagree, Gnome is challenged with making a desktop for
> Linux. At least some of this is in the interest of widening Linux's
> acceptance by making it more accessable to average users. I believe
> that problems average users have with mainstream systems is of the
> utmost importance.
> 
> In addition, Gnome is also intended to widen the Linux applications
> base by providing a standard desktop environment for developers to
> write for. If this application based does widen sufficiently, we are
> going to start to run into the same kinds of problems that other
> mainstream systems with lots of applications (namely Windows) run
> into. Discussing these issues before Gnome has finalized how
> everything works, while it's early enough to do something about it
> where possible, is crucial.


In my opinion things like libraries installation and such are more the work for the distrib maintainer, and not from the part of the application developper.

Friendlyt,

Sven LUTHER