dynamic loading of libraries

Roland Illig roland.illig at gmx.de
Wed Jun 15 06:52:01 UTC 2005


Hi all,

what do we need dynamic loading for? It seems simpler to me to just link 
to the libraries directly.

Maybe someone once wanted to have plug-ins. But then the way we do it 
currently is completely wrong. We currently load external libraries 
dynamically, but the interfaces of these libraries could change without 
notice. Here compile-time bindings give us type safety, which dynamic 
binding with GModule cannot provide.

I suggest that we remove all dynamic binding code from mc.

Roland



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