Okay, I'm about to start in on the skeleton for the variable code. One of
the big intentions here is that variable types can be loaded in on the fly.
At the moment I'm considering throwing each variable type into its
own shareable library, which means we need runtime shareable library
support, which means we need platform-specific code. Wheee.
Anyone care to teach configure.pl how to handle this? I'm thinking
something like the hints file for a platform defining a filename for the
platform-specific code (with a fallback to "$^O.c") that it renames to
platform.c, or something like that, with an empty default.c that's used
instead.
This also means we're going to need to handle building shareable libraries,
which is an interesting trick to do cross-platform. I think it's also time
to overhaul the makefile builder. Luckily we do *not* need anything near as
convoluted as MakeMaker, which is a good thing.
Dan
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