Sam wrote:James Kanze writes:inexperienced programmer will not be able to install the
Boehm collector on his machine.
You do not need to be a rocket scientist to run 'configure',
'make', and 'make install' (or its close equivalent in case
that package uses an oddball installation procedure).
I think I have to disagree with you on this one. Being ableI'm pretty experienced with command line interfaces, having
to proficiently manipulate ANY command line appears to be a
fairly rare skill among new developers, let alone Unix (which
simply blows their fuses).
working in CS long before graphic screens were invented. But I
often find installing code with configure somewhat of a hassle.
First, of course, because it isn't among the commands I
regularly use, and each product has a different set of options,
often poorly documented. In the case of the Boehm collector,
however, the issues are much deeper, because it is at such a low
level; it has to collaborate with libc and with the system,
which means a bit of tuning. Enough to require some
understanding of how garbage collection, and memory management
in general, works.
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