[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

[Florian Klaempfl]

Daniël Mantione schrieb:
> 
> Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
> 
>>
>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>>
>>> Leonardo M. Ramé schrieb:
>>>> Reading a post in "public.mseide-msegui.talk", the mseide discussion
>>>>  list, I found this:
>>>>
>>>> "Florian has committed the beginning of dynamic packages support".
>>>>
>>>> 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?,
>>>>  where objects can flow
>>>> across all libraries without problems?
>>>>
>>> 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.
>> Hm. I don't see what OSS or not OSS has to do with it ?
>>
>> 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.

Exactly.