> There is also the issues of bundles linking against different versions > of gnustep-base/gnustep-gui as compared to the application they are > running in...
Very good point ... I hadn't thought of that. :-( On other platforms this is not so much of an issue just because bundles don't need to be explicitly linked to all libraries ... but on Windows they do :-/ Is there a way to avoid linking bundles to all libraries on Windows ? Else, there is some more thinking to do here to make for a smoother user experience. :-/ Thanks > Which leads me to my other idea...COM registers every class/interface in > the registry with a pointer to the location of the DLL. If we were to > modify the runtime, would it be possible for it to locate classes at > runtime by looking them up in the registry, instead of explicitly > linking against its DLL? Or is this just fanciful thinking? It's an interesting idea ;-) I'm not sure it would really work because most libraries/bundles/etc contain a lot of C code as well as ObjC classes. So even if we managed to hack the runtime to look up classes in the registry, C stuff would still need to be loaded via DLLs, and versioning problems wouldn't go away :-( _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
