Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) Message-ID: <199706160208.TAA07633@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:30:20 EDT." <199706160130.VAA15639@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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>From The Desk Of "Joel N. Weber II" : > 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. Dump the GNU enviroment if it does not meet your needs. Also I am not sure whats the big deal for writing an abstract interface to load up modules at run time. > Give me a handful of examples of plugins for which you expect that > the source will be distributed, and maybe I'll consider it. > Hmm.. Look up the MIDIX plugin which uses timidy to playback midi files I lost my http pointer to it .. Amancio
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