Re: [Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet 1.0.3 released

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, André Kaplan <ak...@la...> wrote:
> Is there a reason with xmlstarlet is linked statically?
>
> Regards,
> André

According to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=820996&group_id=66612&atid=515109

> I'm not planning to support linking with shared libraries.
> I think having it statically liked make it self contained,
> and easier
> to handle for a user.
> It also helps to avoid incomatibility problems in cases when
> shared libraries are upgraded. Binaries which are released
> pass regression testing with particular version of libxml2
> and libxslt.

> Thanks
> --MG

Although given that distro (eg Debian's, probably others') packages
link with shared libraries,
perhaps insisting on static linking isn't worthwhile.

Noam