Talk:DLL hell
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There isn't all that much information in the deleted paragraphs.
The first deleted paragraph boils down to:
- GNOME installs a lot of stuff
- Linux suffers from "header-hell"
Neither one of these statements says very much.
The second deleted paragraph actually does have a little bit of information.
- Should be called so-hell on Linux (conversational fluff)
- Using a package manager helps (redundant with the avoidance methods list)
- libc version incompatibilities (could serve as an example, if rewritten)
- Open source lets you recompile (not really relevant)
The initial reason for evaluating the value of those paragraphs was a complaint on Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention about the page going off on tangents.
--Cyrius 00:16, 28 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Feels kind of wasteful to get rid of all that information on Linux libraries. Why not put it in a new article with mutual links? --cprompt 08:41, 25 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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Hyphen
I'm missing the reasoning for the hyphen in "DLL-hell" as opposed to "DLL Hell" or "DLL hell", and would appreciate others' input. Since, to my knowledge, the hyphen's most common use is to combine multiple words into a single adjective, I find it very jarring to read text which uses the hyphenated form to describe a place. Ventura 19:03, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
- I think I'd agree. In fact, I'm going to move the page right now, and see if anyone can give me a good reason to move it back. - IMSoP 14:17, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Category:Windows
Why is this in Category:Windows? It implies that this phenomenon is Windows-specific, but any operating system that supports dynamically loaded libraries can suffer "DLL hell," including Linux. I'm removing the category. --Ardonik 03:44, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)
Windows as the origin of the term
I'm hesitant to just add this straight in, since there has already been discussion about the fact that DLL hell itself isn't Windows specific, but I'm thinking that the name probably is. As in, although DLL is just an acronym for "Dynamincally Linked Library", it is only commonly used because this is how MS Windows refers to files of this type - their file extension is ".dll", and they are commonly known by that term. And, as the article does mention, Windows is particularly infamous for this problem. So would it be worth making clear in the article that while the phenomenon can occur on any OS, with whatever kinds of libraries are around, the term comes from its occurrence on Windows, with "DLL files"? - IMSoP 14:49, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
DLL Hell and Unix
To what extent do popular unix variants (e.g. Solaris and Linux) suffer from DLL Hell? Funkyj 19:15, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
Mac OS X comment
Under avoidance measures; "Use an alternate operating system which does not have dependance on DLLs such as Mac OS X"
Is this necessary? The avoidance measures section seems aimed more toward developing a DLL-based system that avoids the problems of DLL Hell. The OS X comment, to me, seems more like a snide bit of OS preaching than anything else. Should it be removed? --Ajudd 09:39, 5 Jun 2005 (PDT)
I think so. I love Mac OS X, but the comment is really off-topic. I'm going to remove it. --Chuck 09:59, 5 Jun 2005 (PDT)