William McBrine wrote in a message to Neil Heller:

-=> Neil Heller wrote to William McBrine <=-

 NH> If I were to build an application using shared libraries, what sorts of
 NH> version problems would I run into if the application were to be
 NH> distributed far and wide (presumably beyond my control)?

 WM> Potentially quite a few. But that's why, on the one hand, systems
 WM> like .rpm and .deb were developed; and on the other hand, it's just
 WM> one more reason to distribute your application in source code form.

Indeed.

There were one or two applications that I wanted to run,  that I'd been
given copies of.  And they either wouldn't run,  or gave rather strange
results.  Until,  that is,  it occurred to me to compile new executables
from source.  After that they ran for me just fine...

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