15 May
2014
15 May
'14
3:32 a.m.
On 05/12/2014 03:46 AM, John Meacham wrote:
I pull out code I wrote myself just 3 years ago and find it can't build on a sligthly newer version of the same compiler, yet C code, written to a 20 year old version of the language on a different OS with a different compiler still adapts and works out of the box. We have somehow made a more messed up dependency situation than C has.
I routinely can't build C code because I don't have the right version of a library installed, and have to tweak things hoping for the best. This happens just about every time I need to package something for an "older" distribution. 20 years old C code would probably not suffer from this because it would most likely only depends on libc.