[webstack-discuss] Including MySQL 5.0 with Solaris [LSARC/2007/608 FastTrack timeout 10/26/2007]

[John Plocher]

I *think* (and you know how much trouble I get into when I do that!)
that this static linking has more to do with insurance against volatile
API changes than it does with technical linkage issues.

The technical issue for using archive libraries is simply that the
environment that the consumers live in (cross platform *ix,pc,mac)
has no consistant, predictable and reliable way to deploy and use
versioned DSOs.  Such an environment would need to take into account
vendor-delivered libs as well as local admin and user generated libs
(download the src, build it, link against your most recent libs...)

$0.02

   -John


Danek Duvall wrote:
> If there's no technical reason for people to use archive libraries (and
> there almost certainly isn't) and we're not going to break application
> builds by removing them, then I'd much rather not ship them (as long as the
> shared libraries are easily generated).