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Like DLL Hell all over again.

• digi_owl 9y ago
  I can't help shake that DLL and similar is a symptom of a culture of lax backwards compatibility upstream.
  • jacobush 9y ago
    Microsoft tried to be backwards compatible with msvcrt.dll . It’s just too much inertia. Also you need to be bug for bug compatible or you may break some old app. Apps may even depend upon behaviour you didn’t know was there.
    • digi_owl 9y ago
      Yes there is a point of diminishing return. But all too often these days it feels like projects are not ever trying.
      • jacobush 9y ago
        Maybe because it's not clear there is much to had by trying. The pendulum is currently in swing the other way - see macOS ".app" folders, in effect statically linking apps. And the various Linux initiatives to similar effect.
        • digi_owl 9y ago
          Apple has been doing that thing for ages. And much of the stuff on the Linux side seems to be driven by upstream (Flatpak in particular has come out of the Gnome camp), and is riding the "containerization fever".