Re: About the recent DD retirements
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> That requires tracking ABI versions. People often don't do that. They
> (effectively) statically link and then just test the resulting binary
> and distribute that, including all dependencies.
> There are certainly downsides to this approach, but it's what lots of
> the world seems to have fallen down on.
The primary drawback is that if there's a problem with some dependency,
you have to rebuild the world, and you have to backport the fix to the
problem to every version of the dependency you're using. The former is a
problem for smaller sites but something large web-scale sites have
probably solved in some way. Rebuilding the world is something that,
culturally, gets prioritized pretty highly. But the backporting problem
is still pretty nasty.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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