[oclug] Re: More flame bait: OO (was Re: Language wars (was Re: [oclug] Zed))

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> > You are kidding, right?  glib?  gdk?  gtk?  libtiff?  jpeglib?  zlib?
> > etc...  C has a huge quantity of available libraries.  Granted,
> > they're mostly not officially standardized, but nothing in CPAN is,
> > either.

>     No, I'm not kidding. Try to build glibc on HP-UX. It's required for many
> of those libraries.

I've never had the pleasure...

>     I've managed to get gdk and gtk built, and gdk's data-structures are
> certainly a help. I'm just surprised that there's no standard repository for
> the C community.

I think that's because historically, on UNIX at least, a library was by
definition in C.  No-one thought to have a central repository.

Maybe you're right:  Maybe it is time to collect C libraries into a
central repository.

--
David.