On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:10 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:54:33PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Most of these guys are just beginners to everything but "algorithms", which to them means "math".
They never heard nor thought about "sockets", "ipc", i18n, threading, ABIs/APIs, system-integration, ... etc.
Ehm, I'm not sure what you are describing, ipc is a very big deal especially cross-processor-wise. Threading? mpi/openmp was developed out of these group's needs.
Anyway, we're getting off-topic, the facts are that there are camps that rightfully use static libs a lot. Either Fedora cares about these camps, or they are considered a minority to not really cater for their needs.
IMO, this is not a matter of "minorities" nor of demands. I feel this to be a matter of "limitation of knowledge" trying to push their mistakes into the distro.
I think the lack of knowledge is perhaps on the other side of the fence.
Now that's arrogant - PLONK.
Ralf