Sujet : Re: iconv "versions"
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 15. Mar 2024, 23:01:46
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:57:12 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
He's quite a guy... lot's of complaints about him.
From people other than the GNU project?
He is, or was, “Mr glibc”. He wrote a detailed exposition on the ins and
outs of shared libraries on Linux--more than you ever realized there was
to the subject. If you are ever short of bedtime reading, go find it. It
will tell you why, in spite of all the continual enhancements, libc6 is
still libc6, and why there will likely never be a need for libc7.
ObAdvocacy: Also useful for explaining to Windows fan(atic)s why Windows
suffers from “DLL hell”, but Linux does not.
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