Re: [AD] loadable modules

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-10-07, Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > 
> > Loadable modulesin A4 were rather simple. Our alsa module is just
> > another .so file which is linked against alsa. Allegro then on startup
> > tries to load it. That's it. What was complicated was the way to locate
> > our module .so files, and all the build options to support building
> > without modules.
> 
> Why having modules at all? We use dozen of ALSA functions, and that's the worst 
> case. That could easily fit in a list of functions to load, like we do with 
> OpenGL extensions, but in a cleaner way.

I think that's actually much harder.  I don't see what's so complicated
about modules in A4.

Peter