Re: TODO

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > The main issue I see with using embryo (or small, or Java) or any other
> > byte-code/VM based machine is that it seems to make it much more
> > difficult for the end-user to fix problems on their end.  With the
> > existing libtool they can hunt and peck through the scripts and
> > implement local fixes, which may eventually become useful patches sent
> > back to libtool. With a scheme which distributes "compiled" bytecode
> > files, there is no possiblity of the end-user fixing the problem unless
> > he installs the full libtool distribution package to he can modify the
> > bytecode.
>
> That would be no less true of a compiled ltmain.c.

Even with a compiled ltmain.c, I expect that the platform specific 
rules would be encapsulated in data files rather than being compiled 
into ltmain.c.   That would allow end-users to adjust the rules. 
Ltmain would simply be a rules processor.

It is possible to also distribute the byte-code compiler so the 
end-user can modify source code, but the byte-code compiler is much 
larger and more complex than the byte-code execution processor so the 
size advantage is lost.

Bob
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