Re: Minor wishlist item: any IBMers out there?

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From: Mike Lempriere
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 21:40

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Sorry, gotta flame on this one...

The DLL itself is not inherently evil, however, the implementation is.
It is absurd to have a program split in pieces in DIFFERENT PLACES!
If I were to make a program and use a DLL, I would expect ALL the code
to be in one place.  .DLL and .EXE in the relese directory tree.
An install process should not have to go messing around in the SYSTEM
(/OS2/DLL) directory.  A simple recursive copy should suffice.  Most
importantly, if that software package were to be deleted, only it's
directory need be deleted -- no turds are left behind in the SYSTEM's
directory tree.

Worst yet, the greatest insult of them all, is that the poor clod has
to reboot.  Real computers, with real OS's reboot when the power comes
back on, and that's it.  I thought a 486 with OS/2 wass real.  Wrong.

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