[Info-vax] OpenSSL CSWS-2.2-1

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/30/2019 8:06 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-04-30 23:27:31 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:
>> The situation is approx. the same across VMS, Linux and Windows.
> 
> https://nixos.org/nix/  — "You can have multiple versions or variants of 
> a package installed at the same time. This is especially important when 
> different applications have dependencies on different versions of the 
> same package — it prevents the “DLL hell”. Because of the hashing 
> scheme, different versions of a package end up in different paths in the 
> Nix store, so they don’t interfere with each other."  Etc.

There are typical plenty of technical solutions for the problem.

But they are not commonly used.

Arne