---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:48:44 -0500 From: Carl Worth <cworth@...573...> To: Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab@...581...> Cc: clipart@...330... Subject: Re: [Clipart] Announcing Inkscape 0.40 Release On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:01:37 -0500, "Jonadab the Unsightly One" wrote: The problem of a single application upgrade requiring many libraries to also be upgraded has been solved in any number distributions with good package managers. If you're not yet using one, I would recommend you try one out. No. Static linking leads to bug propagation. This is especially bad when there are security bugs in well-used libraries, (for example the zlib bug from some time ago). Widespread use of static linking makes it much harder to get security fixes out since it requires updating many applications. With dynamic linking, only the affected library need be updated. -Carl _______________________________________________ clipart mailing list clipart@...330... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart