Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

[David Boyce]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Tim Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I was thinking of marking this feature as "experimental" in the first
>> release (in the documentation), just to be more clear on expectations.
>
> Very very much so - there are many platforms to support anyhow and
> when someone eventually tries plugins on them we might see new
> problems so better to let it take time to mature.

Apropos of this, the Apache Portable Runtime has a nice abstraction
over dlopen and LoadLibrary. Assuming they're license-compatible, it
might be worth looking into borrowing that logic for this feature.

-David Boyce