[LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

[Filipe Coelho]

On 12.12.2017 16:02, Gordonjcp wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 09:26:55PM +0100, Markus Seeber wrote:
>>>> and be done with it, let offensive software die. In my eyes writing a plugin GUI
>>>> in GTK/Qt is very bad practice for exactly these reasons.
>>> So what would you write it in instead?
>>>
>> You can still statically link for example with FLTK and derivatives or roll your
> That doesn't answer the question, really.  For one thing, statically
> linking *anything* is utterly ridiculous and anyone doing that now or
> indeed at any point in the past 30 years of Unix development should have
> their hands cut off.

I guess I need to cut my hands then. And a bunch of other developers 
will too.

Static linking is sometimes the only choice if you want to ensure the 
plugin binaries that yourself distribute will work for everyone.
Try using a new fftw3 and then use the binary on a slightly older 
system, and you'll see missing symbols.

We had this kind of discussion several times already...

Either we use self-contained plugins, or stop using (shared library 
based) plugins altogether.