Including the used libraries? (was Re: Help wanted: simple tasks)

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> Tiger!P wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:37:30PM +0100, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> >> Håkan Kvist wrote:

[...]

> > When you require external libraries, it will be harder to track down
> > problems. And when the occure in the external libraries, you can't fix
> > them as easily as when you supply those libs with the own sources.
> 
> Well, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. You could only support
> certain versions of the used libraries, so the users have to check their
> problems also with those before leaving the debugging work to the
> developers.

The problem here is that users won't do that. They see that something is
not working and just report it like that "It doesn't work".
And then the developer has to find out which external libraries are used
to see if the problem is in one of those libraries.

Tiger!P
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