From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:33:50 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D4OW6kdW2X+BrYwb_VKxfmuvQzk7n4g0ZLFfnHqModgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200324222429.GA2587085@spikycactus.com>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:24 AM Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all-
>
> In a fit of pique, I pushed a new branch of Guile to the repo
> called wip-replace-ltdl-with-gmodule. It replaces the dynamic linking
> library libltdl from libtool with the analagous library GModule
> from GLib. It was remarkably easy, and, after a cursory test
> I was surprised to find that it seems to be working.
>
> GModule itself is a standalone library, but, I think it depends
> on GLib. It might be possible to remove that dependency without
> much difficulty, but unfortunately, then you would be left with
> another library to maintain.
>
> Anyway, you may find it amusing, at least.
So knee-jerk reaction, what does GModule do better than libltdl? Or
perhaps why is libltdl "bad"?
>
> Regards,
> Mike Gran
>
>
--
Duy
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2020-03-24 22:24 ` Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule Mike Gran
2020-03-25 9:33 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2020-03-25 12:41 ` Mike Gran
2020-03-27 12:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-27 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 17:03 ` Mike Gran
2020-03-25 12:11 dsmich
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