Re: Need internal help please (dynamic loading support)

"J. Kean Johnston" <jkj(a)sco.com&gt; writes: That is is very nice. 21.0 is very close to release, which why new features like this are on the backburner. There already is a 21.2 development branch in the cvs. Checkout www.666.com/xemacs. There dll loading is in the blue sky category, but I for one would be glad if you could make it a reality. The "internals" manual is not that large and moreover you do not need to read all of it to understand how the lisp linking works. Believe me it saves time. Of course I and others would be more than happy answer questions, it just that the our main expert on things like this (ben(a)xemacs.org) cannot currently type so it less of a strain on him if you read what he wrote in the past first. We[1] care, in fact I would like it a lot if the grahics routines could be loaded on demand. There is just so much other things to do, like getting 21.0 out of the door. One 21.2 is in full fledge things like this will catch on again. Also some of the changes people have in mind for the future could render other things useless. I thought the ldap stuff made real use of the dll code already. I also think Barry Warsaw has some other work that is not integrated in the 21.x tree. How multiplatform is your work (I am thinking unix but note that with XEmacs 21.x there is also w32)? I remember one of the reasons dll loading was kept on te backburner for now was to wait untill things like libtool have stabalised. Finally, don't let all this disencourage you. The dll stuff in 21.0 is marked "subject to change" especially for somebody like you to come in and say "Damn't I know how to do this properly". Jan P.S. And just to warn you: There is another reason the dll stuff in 21.0 won't be advertised. The legal issues involved with dynamic linking. [1] Note I am not an official XEmacs team spokesperson, it just the feeling I get from reading xemacs-beta.