Re: TODO

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.

That could also be achieved with a byte-code ltmain.

> 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.

Agreed.  If anyone is keen enough to fix the inner workings of libtool,
it is not too onerous to ask them to download the libtool release tarball.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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