Re: PC-BSD

["Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:56:25 +0200 CEST
> "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Anyway, there's really no magic to BeOS's solution.
> > Apps are usually distributed as zipped up app folders,
> > with the needed libraries in a subfolder named 'lib'.
>
>
> 	That would seem to make libraries pretty pointless the apps
> might as well be statically linked. It would certainly be a huge waste
> of space to have a copy of everything from libgtk+ down to libc in with
> every gtk app on the system. It would also make it a nightmare when a
> security problem is found in some fairly common library - instead of
> just upgrading the appropriate library every application that used it
> would have to be upgraded.

You're supposed to use common sense with these things. Standard 
libraries are not packaged in the application namespace. Take a look at 
GNUStep for more information on how this actually works.

--Devon