Re: Secret of Life Reveiled [WAS: Re: LZ: Well.]

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Re: Secret of Life Reveiled [WAS: Re: LZ: Well.]

Adam Geitgey wrote:

> Ryan Myers wrote:
> > >really insignificant.  I thank they are sometimes just crutches for
> less
> > >expirenced people).
> > >
> >
> > I don't necessarily agree with this.  I do admit that after viewing
> the page,
> > there are already perhaps quite a few unneeded libraries.  When
> libraries
> > were just being thought of in shell design, I posed on this list
> that all
> > the libs needed were: one lib with pixel-plotting, sprite routines,
> and image
> > recall (ZCP) for BW, another for grayscale, and a lib for (maybe)
> general
> > linkport routines.  And MAYBE one for sound.  IMHO that's all thats
> needed.
>
> ### Warning ### - Secret to eternal life, happiness, and shell
> greatness
> follow
>
> I think library support should be dropped.  Put VERY common things
> like
> PutSprite and NASR and ZCP ___INTO_THE_SHELL___! All the code dropped
> for handling libs would MORE then make up for it.  No "confusing" libs
>
> and all the other libs are very unlikey to be reused would be compiled
>
> into the actually programs.  This would probably save MORE space.
>
> [The previous idea (C) 1997 Adam Geitgey, Any use hereof will be
> subject
> to $5000 per instance]
>
> [PS. Any person known as Andres, Ess, and/or Andi will face penalty of
>
> death if idea is used in their personal programs.] hahahaha :)
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If these routines were put into the shell, then the whole shell would
have to be updated, and rereleased in order to update these libraries.
Your idea would be like Microsoft bundling a new copy of Windows95 with
every program that needed an updated system file.


Greg Gilbert

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