A new definition of libraries (was: Linux Installation)

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Warren wrote:

> Mark Smith wrote:
>  >
> Bob, I think you may be getting hung up on the face-value meaning of
> the word 'standalone'
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> Thanks Mark. You might well be right. And indeed I might be making a 
> fundamental mistake somewhere. However, according to my definition....

If it helps, forget the word "standalone" altogether, because its 
historical origins with HyperCard (simply meaning a stack that has the 
engine embedded and doesn't require the IDE) is apparently unsatisfying.

Think "application" instead.

Done.

If you really like the word "standalone" then perhaps we can lobby the 
team leaders of the various incompatible Linux window managers to come 
up with a single spec, so "Linux" can at last refer to a single thing 
rather than a hodge-podge collection of loosely-related parts, thereby 
making it possible for application developers to write for "Linux" and 
know that it'll run well on all the various and wildly different things 
that distractingly use the same name.

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