[argyllcms] Re: Argyllcms 1.0.1 packaged in fedora-devel

  • From: "edmund ronald" <edmundronald@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:46:45 +0200

Fréderic,

 I'm sorry, there is something here I don't understand: If I
***REQUIRE*** unchanging semantics as far as possible, bugs and all,
can I enforce that without static linking ?

 Please understand that some anonymous contributor  "fixing" a library
may cause a different instrument reading on some systems, which to an
instrument maker is a serious problem.

Edmund


On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Frederic Crozat <fred@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Making sure the needed fixes are pushed down the stack to
> "distributions" is the best way, IMO, because
> those fixes will not only help one particular instrument but improve
> the entire stack.
>
> Again, it is a sense of eco-system. Linux (and other free software OS)
> can be improved in such a way, in the long run, those
> individual fixes would become useless.
>
> Of course, doing this work is not always very fun, it requires more
> time and energy than just static linking, but I think it is not
> wasted energy.
> --
> Frederic Crozat
>
>

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