From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 15 18:30:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07292 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (we-refuse-to-spy-on-our-users@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07287 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id VAA15639; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:30:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:30:20 -0400 Message-Id: <199706160130.VAA15639@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: "Joel N. Weber II" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199706160100.SAA07008@rah.star-gate.com> (message from Amancio Hasty on Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0700) Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) x-url: http://www.red-bean.com/~nemo x-attribution: nemo x-foobar: I will never lie to you. Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Not sure that I understand your reluctance to support "plugin" technology. Plugins are useful from the perspective of not requiring the user to recompile the whole package. There are a couple of reasons I object to it. One is that E-scape is mostly platform independent at this point. I don't want to have to put knowlege specific to HURD, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc into E-scape. Until recently, it was hard to even get shared libraries at all in the GNU environment. Give me a handful of examples of plugins for which you expect that the source will be distributed, and maybe I'll consider it.