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There is one good thing in UNIX shared library + package management model: security updates. You don't have to depend on some weird ISV to update his own copy o
by abbot2 13y ago
There is one good thing in UNIX shared library + package management model: security updates. You don't have to depend on some weird ISV to update his own copy of buggy openssl code in his own "app" in the Unix world. Good for sysadmins. Inconvenient for users. Doh.
- pifflesnort 13y agoThe solution is to provide sufficiently broad set of tightly integrated base system libraries; there are few, if any, duplicate dependencies across most applications. To use OpenSSL as an example, on OS X applications all make use of SecureTransport and CommonCrypto. This brings other advantages, such as automatic integration with keychain-managed certificates and certificate authorities.