Re: [pclasses-devel] i'm baaaaaack!!!!

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

On Friday 18 February 2005 12:08, Christian Prochnow wrote:
> Flex maybe isnt a problem if we distribute the autogenerated
> flex-parser. That way win32 users should be able to build it without
> having flex for win32.

If it's that easy i'll be very happy. i'll try porting in one of them 
and see what happens.

> > Any specific wishes?
>
> My biggest wish: a PluginRegistry.

i think about that a lot, actually. i'm still not 100% clear what we 
need to do with it bzw what it need to do.

a) keep track of which plugins are loaded.
b) allow us to close plugins (or auto-close them somehow).
c) provide a factory-like interface.

The major problem i see is still the dlclose() thing. We can never 100% 
reliably know when all resources included by a DLL are freed up, so we 
cannot know when it is 100% safe to dlclose(). For most apps this is 
not a problem, because they can wait for the OS to close the dll at app 
shutdown. For P, which intends to be system-level, such behaviour is 
definitely a potential source of huge leaks :(. So the close problem 
has to be solved, but i haven't got any clever ideas.

Anything else?

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