Ahhh - you're an IBM person working on Sash????
Cheers,
Chris
"Ari Heitner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
20010427131637.D368@andrew">news:20010427131637.D368@andrew...
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:29:23PM +0100, Topics Man wrote:
> > Are there any plans to be able to embed typelibs within the library
> > (DLL,etc) to which they refer (like COM can)?
>
> unless something has drastically changed, no.
>
> this is actually related to a problem I have: not only are typelibs
separate
> files, but they must be in the mozilla/components directory or they're not
> seen. this means that you can't have a system mozilla directory and let
> users install extensions to mozilla, since they won't have rights to the
> components/ directory.
>
> i've been planning to fix the simple version of this for a while now
(SashXB
> really needs it, to avoid having to keep a separate per-user copy of
> mozilla) by supporting a search path of typelib locations.
>
> If there was a convincing way to include type information in DLLs on Unix
> (which afaik is the real problem with what you're asking for) I'd sure
look
> into it -- it would make life way easier, since we already know where the
> DLLs are :)
>
>
> ari
>
