> writers participate in. When I use static libraries to do crappy code > development I want to make very sure that the static libraries I use > are a specific version.. i do not want and can not rely on static > libraries from versions which may differ over time from the OS vendor. It is not the use I do, nor advocate ;-). As I said above it is to achieve portability of the executable. And I certainly don't advocate especially compat libs. > Having Fedora Extras provide static versions means Extras will be > forced to supply compatibility versions of those static libraries > forever to meet the needs of this highly technically skilled set of I don't think so nor advocate it. Providing the static library doesn't mean having compat libraries. (as a side note I don't see anything wrong in providing compat libraries if they are properly packaged and there is a maintainer). > users that make up the scientific programming community. There are > deeply systemic problems in the scientific coding practises that I > participate in, and I don't want to see progressive projects bending > policies to help rather smart people be even lazier about their coding > habits. It is not by not providing static libs that better coding practices will be used. Once more I advocate static libs for their portability, and in the cases when the reasons to use shared libs don't hold. -- Pat -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
