On Monday 10 April 2006 22:52, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:16 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 10 April 2006 20:35, Stephen Mirowski wrote: > > > I guess in the M$ sys vs Open Source sys, M$ does have something good, > > > less code > > > reuse which prevents crazy deps trees and simplifies installs for > > > users. > > > > Less code reuse? Yes, I remember well the days when all DOS programs had > > to include drivers for every common printer - and heaven help you if your > > printer wasn't one of the common ones. That left you with a *very* basic > > Epson setup. The one and only thing I welcomed when I was eventually > > forced to move to windows was the cure for this particular ill. > > > > And while we're thinking about code reuse, why does 'dll hell' occur? > > ---- > save that one for a Windows list please. > It wasn't meant as a question, Craig. Dll hell occurs, AIUI, precisely because there is shared code, badly written and badly controlled. Anne
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