Dependency hell

[Charles Swiger]

On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Ziller, James wrote:
> So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a 
> given
> library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer 
> version?:(

Well, you could simply use the old version of the library.

It's not especially hard to write code in a way that maintains upwards 
compatibility-- putting a version # or sizeof(struct foo) in structures 
being passed around helps!-- but some projects don't bother.

-- 
-Chuck