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From: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Subject: SHARED LIBRARIES - THE END
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Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 18:55:10 GMT
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Since beginning the shared library project I have received mailboxes
full of flames every day. If you don't like my way of doing shared
libraries, go and do them yourself. I've got better things to do than
to spend all day debugging an implementation that people don't even
want. So I will not be making a second release of my shared library
package, or supporting the first one.
I was going to contribute some other things as well - for example some
fixes to the include files that correct a serious bug. But I don't
think I can be bothered to make a diff, since it'll only get flamed.
Instead I leave finding this bug as an exercise for the reader, armed
with the ANSI document.
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