Re: Beware of modules.

Friday, 15 January 1999

        Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; writes:

...
 On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:26:18PM -0800, J. Kean Johnston wrote:
 > So I guess the answer to OG's question is a resounding "YES", we will
 > "plug into C code".

 Which means that we're going to have compatibility problems each time we
 change something in the internal C interfaces.  This is already a
 terrible pain for the lisp code, and you want to extend that to the C
 code? 
  Yes. :)

...
 Do you realize that if external third party C modules become the
rule, we
 can't change anything to the Mule implementation or the lisp system?
 That we couldn't have ported to win32?  That the "gung ho" changes would
 have been impossible to make? 
And the most likely person to be writing 3rd party modules in the near
future (me for Emacs/W3 and various other stuff) is fully aware of that.
For most of these things, a simple recompile would be in order

For major changes, that is what major version numbers and version checking
are for. :)

-Bill P.

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