OpenEuphoria

Re: Modular Euphoria

• Posted by Gary Shingles <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Jan 11, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> ags wrote:
> > Maybe not a good time to introduce a completely new topic, but you
> > [snip]
> > With Euphoria on Windows and Linux is it feasible to have say an exw.exe/exu
> > which is runtime linked to (eg) eu_backend.dll/so etc?
> [snip] 
> I think we need to figure out what we'd want to accomplish with the 
> modularization.  Just splitting the backend into a dll/so could be 
> fairly easy, to the point of a change in the linker commands.  But I'm
> not sure about the benefit of that.
> 
> As for going in the direction that perl took, I'm not sure how this might 
> work.  I think there'd have to be a lot of redesign to make this worth it. 
> 
> Maybe that's something for a 4.0 timeframe.  What you're really asking is
> for a straightforward way to extend euphoria as a language so that once
> a module is installed, it's transparent to the user.  This might or

Yep, thank for your opinion on that.  I just thought I'd raise it as something
on the distant horizon :)

Gary