Comment DLL hell is a thing of the past... (Score 1) 13
...mostly.
I've built dozens of installers for Windows apps and even distributed them to a variety of customers.
The only problem I've found is that not everyone has the dependencies installed--for example, not everyone has .NET at this point--but I can easily point them to things like that. There tend to be only one or two dependencies at maximum.
On linux, there are so many different libraries required to run any app that doesn't run in the console. To actually BUILD something can be an amazing amount of work. It took me several hours to set up the build environment for OOo 2 beta on ubuntu.
"DLL hell" is a much worse problem on Linux, because Linux gives many many more choices than Windows. Whether this is good or bad is in the eyes of the observer.
I've built dozens of installers for Windows apps and even distributed them to a variety of customers.
The only problem I've found is that not everyone has the dependencies installed--for example, not everyone has
On linux, there are so many different libraries required to run any app that doesn't run in the console. To actually BUILD something can be an amazing amount of work. It took me several hours to set up the build environment for OOo 2 beta on ubuntu.
"DLL hell" is a much worse problem on Linux, because Linux gives many many more choices than Windows. Whether this is good or bad is in the eyes of the observer.
