Daniël Mantione schrieb: > > Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > >> >> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >>> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb: >>>> Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion >>>> list, I found this: >>>> >>>> "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support". >>>> >>>> With "Dynamic Packages" you mean a platform independent way of >>>> implementing something similar to >>>> .Dlls (or .bpl)? without creating each library its own memory manager?, >>>> where objects can flow >>>> across all libraries without problems? >>>> >>> If it is finished, it would be something like this yes. However, I'am >>> not convinced of the use of dyn. loaded packages for an OSS project so I >>> played only with it. >> Hm. I don't see what OSS or not OSS has to do with it ? >> >> Packages are IMHO a pre-requisite for any good plugin system. > > The reason is that the "library" construction requires you to write down > your binary interface, and therefore design it properly. If the > interfacing between application and plugin is automatic, it can also > change automatically without you knowing. > > I believe such a system is only useable in contolled environments. If > plug-ins are to be developed by a third party, runtime-packages aren't > a feasible mechanism.
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