main TODO file ?

[Jarosław Staniek]

Thiago Macieira said the following, On 2005-10-17 11:55:

> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
>>So I'm not talking about a full libtool replacement, but libtool like
>>functionality. And having the .la files around proved useful before, so
>>I guess we can use that format too.
> 
> 
> Can we enumerate the benefits of having .la files around? I'm not 
> convinced we need them...
> 
> I can think of only one:
> - ability to link to static libraries' dependencies
> 
> And personally I think that's more trouble than it's worth, so I'd like to 
> remove that ability. However, last time I used mingw/cygwin, I had to 
> give an incredibly long list of libraries for the simplest program to 
> link (because linking to .dlls meant linking to static libraries). Has 
> that weird problem been fixed in the last 4 years?

On win32/msvc .la files were really unnecessary. Anyway I looking for them in 
libltdl (for KTrader), so .la file is needed for modules. Nothing more.
If they were not necessary, at least on win32, I'd rather want to look for 
.dll files directly.

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