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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So...

At the end of the day, it's perfectly supported, but developers are encouraged to consider the benefits of shared libraries.

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From: coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Rafael Rivera [rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:20 PM
To: Eric Schultz
Cc: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] use of static libs permitted?

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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