What's a developer to do?

[Bill Sconce]

I just noticed.  The original post was two paragraphs, one by a Starkit
author, one by Bruce.  And reading the first one more closely I wee why
maddog found the complaint "loose".

> "I'm starting to lose the battle with Linux - the dynamic builds will
> not work on all Linux systems, and the static builds are doing such
> nasty things in libc nowadays that they too probably won't work  without
> specific libc.so's on your system.  Apparently the world is  moving
> towards a state where only Linux distro builders can produce  proper
> binaries, 


Ah. Some weasel words to be aware of: "Apparently", "the world is moving."

(With apology/credit to Bruce, who noticed similar dross in another thread.)



> and where a binary no longer works across Linux releases,

Ah, he IS trying to spin us up.  (Binaries NEVER "worked across releases".
(At one point we broke ALL of them, on purpose ... remember ELF?)


> let alone on another distro 

Weasel words to be aware of:  "let alone".


> (what a total cop-out compared to Windows!).

Disconnect.
Power off.
Bye.