[Portland] Re: Project Portland,
RuDI and the Generic desktop adapter
Dan Kegel
daniel.r.kegel at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 08:35:53 EET 2005
On 12/8/05, nf2 <nf2 at scheinwelt.at> wrote:
> As a Java developer i'm using Eclipse quite a lot and ldd reports that
> it dynamically links 32 libraries, including gtk+, glib etc. And it's a
> quite old Eclipse from March 2004. So where is the problem? This ABI
> debate is still a bit mystic to me...
I see ABI problems every day. For instance, Wine built on one
linux system often won't run on a different linux system.
By definition, this is an example of an ABI problem.
Not sure exactly which one, but whatever it is sure bites :-)
That said, I think there's room and need for both approaches.
#1, we need to make it easier for ISVs to develop
applications that directly link to binary libraries by
encouraging ABI stability and standardization (e.g. via the LSB).
And #2, we need to make it easier for ISVs to develop
applications that are less dependent on ABIs.
ISVs can then pick and choose which approach works best
for their app.
- Dan
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