XPLC Developments and Directions

About a month ago, Havoc Pennington (of GNOME fame) posted an article about GNOME picking a runtime environment which prompted me to rethink the future of XPLC. I describe my thoughts on this subject in this Advogato posting: ttp://advogato.org/person/pphaneuf/diary.html?start=165

Essentially, we will be pushing toward an earlier stable release, so that software can dependably use XPLC for some things it can do well at the moment, like helping keep ABI stability under control and providing dynamically loadable components (plugins).

Thanks to various contributors, we have fixed the Mac OS X support, kept the Win32 port up to date, added support for the popular pkg-config system and we are starting to get some users, slowly, but surely. We will make sure that XPLC support gets out there, so that it is as reliably present on systems as the C library.

We will also attempt to keep a steady stream of updates here, to keep in touch with the embryonic community.