Hi group, I've been reading up on D for the past few days--something I'd been planning to do for quite a while--and find much to like and little to dislike; as such, I am considering using it for my next project, which would run on Linux (and possibly some other POSIX systems) and would need to load plugins.
Now I've done such things in C in the past, and it's not too difficult: you create a .so file, have it call some initial function right after the dlopen(), and then have that initial function register the new functionality available. After looking at the documentation for a few days, I've come to the conclusion that with Object.factory and interfaces, I believe I can abstract things enough so that all a plugin would need to do is register a new class, which could then be instantiated if needs be. However, what I don't find is the answer to the two following questions: - Does D support dlopen(), or some similar mechanism, to allow me to load plugins at runtime? - If it does, does Object.factory() still work for new classes loaded in through dlopen() (or its functional equivalence)? Thanks, -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a
