• torpak
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    21 year ago

    can you not recompile the app to use the new lib?

    • @HeyMrDeadMan
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      101 year ago

      Someone probably could. But not me. I am not a software developer, and being one should not be a prerequisite to using an OS, despite what the memes in this very group might lead one to believe.

    • @anonono
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      81 year ago

      that’s when you find out that the updated build environment is incompatible with the older libraries the project expected.

      usually the only escape is docker, or containerization to be correct, just give the old app and old environment.

      this wastes a lot of space though

    • icedterminal
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      1 year ago

      Potentially but it’s not always that simple. I’ve literally encountered this exact scenario. OldeShit needs libY 1.9 but pacman is on 2.2. Can’t downgrade because libY uses 10 different libs collectively in the depends tree that explicitly need 2.0 or higher. So you take a look at libY and OldeShit builds only to realise several functions that libY provide have been reworked or removed, making it incompatible with OldeShit. As such OldeShit doesn’t build.

      As an aside, this is quite literally why Microsoft has several different VC Redistributables. To avoid this issue. But this also creates another issue. Lol.