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[Rafael Rivera <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And those that statically link, with no justification, will be placed on the
upcoming Hall of Shame page.

/rafael

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Eric Schultz <wwahammy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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