[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:

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> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
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> > Leonardo M. Ram=E9 schrieb:
> > > Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion
> > >  list, I found this:
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> > > "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support".
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> > > With "Dynamic Packages" you mean a platform independent way of
> > >  implementing something similar to
> > > .Dlls (or .bpl)? without creating each library its own memory manager=
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> > >  where objects can flow
> > > across all libraries without problems?
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> > If it is finished, it would be something like this yes. However, I'am
> > not convinced of the use of dyn. loaded packages for an OSS project so I
> > played only with it.
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> Hm. I don't see what OSS or not OSS has to do with it ?
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> Packages are IMHO a pre-requisite for any good plugin system.

The reason is that the "library" construction requires you to write down =

your binary interface, and therefore design it properly. If the =

interfacing between application and plugin is automatic, it can also =

change automatically without you knowing.

I believe such a system is only useable in contolled environments. If =

plug-ins are to be developed by a third party, runtime-packages aren't =

a feasible mechanism.

Dani=EBl