POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: This is why Windows doesn't need a package manager: Re: This is why Windows doesn't need a package manager

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From: Jim Henderson
Date: 18 Aug 2008 14:53:41
Message: <48a9c535$1@news.povray.org>

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:17:11 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> There are a great many Linux apps that use static linking to bundle the
>> necessary libraries with the package.
> 
> Actually, you don't even need static linking. You just need to include
> the right version in the package and install it properly (either in your
> own directory or overwriting stuff (leading to DLL Hell) or whatever).

True, you could do that, and override library paths with LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
environment variables....But you've just helped me make my case. :-)

> Of course, there are still occasional programs where they say "if you
> get error 38173, go download some mumble DLL from Microsoft here..."
> That would be the Windows equivalent of Package Fail. :-)

Yep...

Jim

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