Re: Catch 22

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:32:46AM +0100, David Reid wrote:
> I've been pondering the dynamic loading stuff for memory and had a few
> discussions off list about it, but one thing keeps hitting me.
> 
> We really want to use the APR dynamic loading as it covers all the platforms
> we need quite nicely, but that uses pools, which so far we haven't had any
> involvement with in the memory code, which is IMHO the right thing to do!

Dynloading memory management seems a bit misguided. Just how much
flexibility does an app truly need? Relinking is easy enough. Or maybe
compile one file and relink. That definitely beats some of the old
techniques of recompile-the-world.

But dynload? That seems excessive.

> As the memory stuff is still in it's infancy I think we'll have to just
> stick the issue on the back burner for now and hopefully come back to it.
> I'll add some stuff to the TODO file with the stuff from the discussions as
> well...

Please move that TODO into the STATUS file. We can't track stuff if it is
all over the repository. The STATUS file does /not/ contain "stuff for
release" but also contains ideas and todos.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/