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Re: [ft-devel] Amalgamation: Aftermath.
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Alan Coopersmith |
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Re: [ft-devel] Amalgamation: Aftermath. |
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Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:41:18 -0700 |
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On 04/13/12 07:30 AM, Vinnie wrote:
> From: http://rawmaterialsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8654
> "those amalgamations are pretty convenient imo, i don't get why you got so
> much
> hostility on the freetype dev list"
A pretty convenient way to make your software full of security holes
and other bugs if you don't spend the time to update it for every upstream
patch, at which point you'll find that it's not all that convenient compared
to just using a shared library.
http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2012/04/03/#insecure-libraries
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