Pyramid Support of Shared Libraries

[Carl S. Gutekunst]

In article <17347 at bellcore.bellcore.com> Victor Scott Gregg writes:
>Question for the net:

Save some net bandwidth, and ask your salescritter.

>Could some one send me a pointer to information on Pyramid support for
>shared libraries?

Pyramid does not support shared libraries in either OSx 5.0 (current) or 5.1
(planned). It is a win on smaller systems, like workstations and 3B2's, but
not as important on a large system as a lot of other things we could be
working on. Implementing shared libraries would mean changing binary file
formats, something that was a more-pain-that-gain proposition. Note that
binaries from OSx 2.1 will still run under OSx 5.0, five years later, even
on the MIServer. Not forcing the customers to recompile everything at every
major release is something that has been pretty important to the company. 

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