freenode/#shirakumo - IRC Chatlog Search Saturday, 16th of January 2021, 19:06:02 UTC 19:06:06 Shinmera (fun with X and OpenGL) 19:06:19 Shinmera and then hope there's no internal version dependencies between the host systems they connect to. 19:06:26 Shinmera so... it doesn't really help. 19:11:13 Shinmera The only reason static linking works at all is because Linus is nice and doesn't want to break userspace. 19:11:24 Shinmera On Windows and Mac you have no such guarantees :shrug: 19:11:24 Colleen ‾\(ツ)/‾ 19:12:11 Shinmera And naturally for any protocol your program interacts with that isn't Linux, you don't, either. 19:22:37 selwyn i see 19:59:06 Shinmera Software versioning is a complicated issue. Static linking solves one part by bundling everything. Containers are another version of the same idea, just more heavy-weight and more complete