Re: Beware of modules.

Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; writes: Modules are a nice way of introducing a simple and efficient FFI to XEmacs. Many things that are currently coded in C for the sole reason of needing to interface to C libraries (such as LDAP) can be written as modules. Such use of modules has a chance of being cleanly defined and not overly error-prone. I agree with you and Kyle that while having TTY/X/stream/... support modularized in this fashion has a high coolness factor, it is probably not all that useful in practice. However, even if we don't use the modules in the standard distribution at all, I think that having the *ability* to dynamically load object files into a running XEmacs is a great thing from the developers' perspective. Even if *we* don't know what to do with the modules, we give the ability to others who might have a use for them. And this is a Good Thing. I congratulate J. Kean Johnston on the modules code, which looks like high-quality stuff to me.