boblq wrote: > So what do you call practical? Do you have > another means of extension that you think > is easier/better? Seriously.
Practical is something I can expect a reasonable return on investment for. To extend a program using the source written in something like C when the program was not designed to be extensible can be quite a task. Much easier, more practical, and a more worthwhile time investment, if you can just whip up some much simpler elisp or python or whatever extension language the program uses and the exported API's. > PS, I don't have a welder or the relevant skills. > You make a useful ana;ogy though. I do wish that > I did have those skills. The welder is the easy part, > the skills less so. I generally don't have the C skills to extend anything but a simple program. I could invest a lot of time in brushing up on my C and studying the architecture of the program just like you could learn how to weld and invest in the equipment. But it usually isn't worth it to either of us. Just design the truck with some nice places to bolt things onto like perhaps a trailer hitch. And design any program that someone needs to extend with a nice language and basic API. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
