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One nice thing on Windows is the ability to see useful stuff in the "properties" of a DLL.  I think executables and libraries on Linux should have this feature too.  It seems to me there should be an ELF section with arbitrary name/value pairs, and some of the names should be standardized so that they can be displayed in file managers like Nautilus, Konqueror etc.
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One nice thing on Windows is the ability to see useful metadata in the "properties" of a DLL.  I think executables and libraries on Linux should have this feature too.  It seems to me there should be an ELF section with arbitrary name/value pairs, and some of the names should be standardized so that they can be displayed in file managers like Nautilus, Konqueror etc.
  
 
* [http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/22/shared-object-version some info about how SO's are versioned]
 
* [http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/22/shared-object-version some info about how SO's are versioned]

Revision as of 13:56, 2 December 2010

One nice thing on Windows is the ability to see useful metadata in the "properties" of a DLL. I think executables and libraries on Linux should have this feature too. It seems to me there should be an ELF section with arbitrary name/value pairs, and some of the names should be standardized so that they can be displayed in file managers like Nautilus, Konqueror etc.

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