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

On 12/09/2017 02:32 PM, nils wrote: No the "way of forefathers" was static linking. Just employ static linking when sensible. There are less ways a linker can screw that up during runtime and your application size will be even smaller since we have link time optimization these days, startup time will be faster and run time may be faster. Sure, if LGPL licensed libraries are used, this may be impossible but from a technical standpoind dynamic linking for self containing application bundles does not make sense unless you actually need to link dynamically (e.g. license requirements, plugins etc.). The current way of bundling shared libraries with the application ist just a dirty workaround for Problems that combines the worst parts of static and dynamic linking, introduces bloat and solves problems that are mostly caused by employing dynamic linking in the first place. Yes I understand why people do it, yes it works and yes it solves social and resource problems so that people can move on. But the real technical problem is not solved.