Re: Summary of C++ symbols experience
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> And indeed, this process has already broken. Take a look at:
>>
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=opensaml2&arch=ia64&ver=2.4.3-3
> To be honest, for me this thread is just confirming my
> prejudice^Wjudgement that C++ is just a bad choice of language for
> implementing shared libraries. There's just far too much mess and
> instability.
It's not my favorite language either (I actually prefer Java, which has a
completely different set of problems and challenges), but of course the
problem is that we use software written in C++, and some of it is
implemented as shared libraries. So one way or the other, we have to
figure out how we're going to deal with them.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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