RE: [GD-General] DLLs for game objects

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

>One thing that bears consideration is what you allow those=
 external
>DLL's to do.

Well, I'm thinking of this from a server side type of thing (a la=
 
MUDs), which I should have been more explicit about.

>You need to work *hard* to get C++ inheritance to work across=
 DLL
>boundaries.  (Consider your vorpal_sword : sword example)

Yes, agreed.

>You need to work *hard* to get C++ exceptions to work across=
 DLL
>boundaries.

Don't use them =3D)

>At least, in all previous attempts that we've made (in a=
 non-game
>environment), we had so much woe that we fell back on insisting=
 that
>you only have C interfaces, that return status values, rather=
 than
>throw exceptions.

Using straight up C has so many advantages that it's not funny,=
 that 
much I agree with.  Little things like transmitting networked=
 entity 
state just come off much more naturally using C than it does=
 trying 
to incorporate all the extra goodness that C++ theoretically 
supplies.

Sometimes monolithic is good.

Brian