[Ffmpeg-devel] [RFC] dlopen vs linking for external libraries

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:22:55AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:43 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > Also funny that it's always something they have a direct interest in ..
> > > 
> > > It's also funny that they assume "taking over the Desktop" is the primary goal.
> > 
> > Since it is a worthy goal it's a very good lure to make others accept
> > your arguments behind its disguise ...
> 
>   Think what you want. But I'm sick and tired of recompiling stuff from
> source on my underpowered laptop. And I'm sick and tired of figuring
> out the million dependencies of a one in a million copy of stuff I was
> able to locate on rpmfind.net. If you enjoy that sort of thing -- good
> for you I have better things to do.

I don't enjoy it, it drives tears to my eyes.  The only thing that makes
me sober up is remembering the ~10 years that I used and admined
Windows...

>   Oh, and by the way -- things like "it's a very good lure to make
> others accept your arguments behind its disguise" sound pathetic enough
> when they refer to a clearly stated argument.

I did not mean to insult you.  Nevertheless I'm sick of articles on news
sites where Joe random journalist tells the community what it needs to do.

Diego