Re: Don't install a different version than you promised!

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: Don't install a different version than you promised!
Date: 14:40 on 26 May 2005
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:03:07AM -0500, Peter da Silva said:
> Dependencies must be identified, and where possible eliminated.

These were the people who also wrote their own compiler.

	"In defense of not invented here"
	http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

Which is interesting especially since Mr Spolsky seems to have 
completely reversed his opinions on "Microsoft can do no wrong, they're 
just misunderstood ... by the way I wrote macros for Excel".

As an aside - releatively recently I've heard more than a few people
(both here and in other forums) complain that dependencies (and hence
shared libraries) are a bad idea, especially if they don't control them. 
I'm always intrigued to hear whether they advocate static libraries, or 
just not-invented-here or whether they have a new, entirely shiny and 
different way of doing things. 


There's stuff above here

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