Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

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> From: nils <info@email-addr-hidden>
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> Yes, that is possible and I wholeheartly lobby for that because library
> bugs and mismatches are common and could be avoided.
>
> Ardour does it and I do it in my own programs as well, or at least will
> if properly released. If you can copy a library into your source tree
> (Python in my case) why would depend to the external ecosystem?
>
> Some Linux distributions? (mostly very small and unknown though) do it
> already but the "way of forefathers", the shared library, is still stuck
> in peoples head.
>
> Bottom line: It turned out the Windows way of shipping all or most
> libs with the program is a really good way to compatibility.
>
>
Definitely. Including as many 3rd party dependencies as possible makes life
easier both for software providers and users.
The biggest advantage is that you avoid all the bugs caused by incompatible
(or too old) versions of libraries people might have on their system.

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