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 > >