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[Eric Schultz <wwahammy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

I think that one of the main reasons open source software often uses static
libraries, especially on Windows, is that it gets around a lot of the
dependency issues. You don't have to worry about dynamically loading a
strange version of a dependency library if you never dynamically load
libraries. CoApp intends to solve this problem so I think developers should
choose to release non-statically bound libraries whenever possible and
hopefully they will.

Eric


On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Lee Fisher <blibbet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Certainly CoApp supports the use of static libraries;
>>
>
> Excellent news, thanks.
>
>  and there is really only a small set of really valuable reasons one might
>> want to use static code.
>>
>> The top of that list, is[...]
>>
>
> that the compiler and operating system support the use of static libs, and
> existing software use them, so CoApp should try to support the platforms'
> tools and existing projects, and not cause additional restrictions that'll
> prevent adoption of this toolchain. IMO, at least. :-)
>
>
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