Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:30:20 -0400 From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) Message-ID: <199706160130.VAA15639@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706160100.SAA07008@rah.star-gate.com> (message from Amancio Hasty on Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0700)
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> 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.
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