RE: [Iaxclient-devel] Why LGPL...

[Andy P. <an...@au...>]

On 29/08/2005 at 09:27 Michael Van Donselaar wrote:

><snip for brevity>
>
>> 
>iaxComm had always linked against the iaxclient library statically, and
>still does if you compile from the CVS check out code.  (To get the
>dynamically-linked version, you need to "make shared" in the lib directory
>first, followed by "make" in the simpleclient/iaxcomm directory)
>
>The only reason why the binaries on the web page are dynamically linked is
>that I *thought* that a dll compiled from a iaxclient library change could
>justy be dropped in, without recompiling and reversioning the iaxcomm app.
>(It turns out not to be that simple)

I was under this impression too... I thought that was the whole point of a=
 dll,
you could upgrade it without issue provided the interface stayed the same.


>
>Average Joe user kept asking for the installer (which, incidentally, does
>not require a reboot).
>

Typical Joe user, don;t seem to know what they want ;)


Andy<iax...@li...>



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