[haiku-development] Re: rolling release? ever? maybe?
- From: Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:48:50 +0100
Il giorno 17/nov/2011 20.11, "Adrien Destugues" <
pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> Well, we use a lot of 3rdparty stuff in Haiku. Some examples are
> freetype (text rendering), ICU (localization), the BSD network
> drivers...
> The idea is to wrap a stable API around them so the applications can
> keep running. It seems to work quite well. Data translators work in the
> same way, and they even allow to use new file formats in old
> applications.
>
> This only works if the apps are written properly and use only the Haiku
> API and not the internal libraries.
>
So, if it does not always work, we have this problem as well, just like
every other Linux distribution. For example, you talked about ICU: if we
include a given version of it, we have to make sure that other applications
which needs it are compiled against the correct version, otherwise they
need to keep a different version of the library in their folder, or need to
be compiled statically (with the obvious related problems)
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