On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 00:21, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Look I am not trying to be snotty :-> I just cant believe that everthing > that is available for linux must have dependencies, If the M$ freaks can > get programs to install with install shields then why cant we do it in > Linux. Thats all. That's a question of philosophy. In Windows, everything one could ever need (in terms of API) is either built into Windows or you supply your own (which is why you get into the Windows equivalent of dependency hell -- DLL conflicts!). In Linux, various projects build on the base established by other projects. Here, go read this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html ...it will serve as an acceptable introduction to the differences in culture between Windows and Unix. Then you should read "The Art of Unix Programming", linked to in that article. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
