On 07 November 2007 16:41, Joe Buck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: >> Is there any progress in the gcc-plugin project ? > > Non-technical holdups. RMS is worried that this will make it too easy > to integrate proprietary code directly with GCC. > > If proponents can come up with good arguments about how the plugin > project can be structured to avoid this risk, that would help.
I don't understand: why wouldn't designing it so that they have to be implemented as DSOs and hence are covered by the anything-directly-linked-in-is-GPL'd clause do the job? Or is the concern that people will write trivial marshalling plugins and ship all the data out across a pipe or socket to some proprietary code and then only release source for their shim layers? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....