Re: dynamic loading of libraries

2005-06-16 Thread Roland Illig
Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Roland Illig wrote: what do we need dynamic loading for? It seems simpler to me to just link to the libraries directly. There are external dependencies which are not vital for MC and it can function without them properly - for example the famous X11 mou

Re: dynamic loading of libraries

2005-06-15 Thread William Scott Lockwood III
--- [ Pavel Tsekov ] ===--- > Hello Scott, > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, William Scott Lockwood III wrote: >> Pavel, there is an old saying about rocks, and glass houses... > I don't quite understand the meaning of this . I have taken this up off list. -- Regards, Scott __

Re: dynamic loading of libraries

2005-06-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Scott, On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, William Scott Lockwood III wrote: > Pavel, there is an old saying about rocks, and glass houses... I don't quite understand the meaning of this . ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-deve

Re: dynamic loading of libraries

2005-06-15 Thread William Scott Lockwood III
Or perhaps fork it so that there is more than one release every blue moon. Pavel, there is an old saying about rocks, and glass houses... -- Regards, Scott --- [ Pavel Tsekov ] ===--- > Hello, > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Roland Illig wrote: > >> what do we need dynamic loading for? It seems si

Re: dynamic loading of libraries

2005-06-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Roland Illig wrote: > what do we need dynamic loading for? It seems simpler to me to just link > to the libraries directly. It may be simple to you but have you considered the package maintainer and the end user ? Or you are again just thinking only for yourself ? Th

dynamic loading of libraries

2005-06-14 Thread Roland Illig
Hi all, what do we need dynamic loading for? It seems simpler to me to just link to the libraries directly. Maybe someone once wanted to have plug-ins. But then the way we do it currently is completely wrong. We currently load external libraries dynamically, but the interfaces of these libra