From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 15 19:08:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA09502 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09495 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07633; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706160208.TAA07633@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Joel N. Weber II" cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:30:20 EDT." <199706160130.VAA15639@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of "Joel N. Weber II" : > 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. 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