> The mystery to me is why MacOSX introduced .dylib instead of
> sticking with .so.

There were *.so files and hacks to load them. But the structure od dylib
is different and uses a slightly different loader, dyld. I guess they wanted
to make a distinction. The had some kind of Obj C dynamic plugin things
as well. Software history is full of regrets.


—
John Skaller
skal...@internode.on.net





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