Re: [Opengrads-devel] dynamic supplibs checking

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:44:15AM -0400, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> Very persuasive. I guess it depends a lot on which libraries we're  
> talking about. It's not fair to lump HDF into the same category as DODS, 
> which is far more aggravating to support. But if you have an old box with 
> gcc 2.95, you just can't have an opendap-enabled build of GrADS 2.0.

Indeed, but gcc 2.95 is very very old. With anything above you can
certainly (maybe with some stl implementation). Besides, grads doesn't 
link against libdap, but against libncdap which has a far better binary 
stability. and we can imagine that the binary compatibility will never 
break, so this gives room for backward compatibility at the source level.

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Pat