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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Bernard URBAN wrote: > > >>>>> "Jay" == Jay Glascoe <jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov> writes: > > Jay> hi, I hope this isn't flame bait, but IMO guile-1.3 is not > Jay> (yet!) ready for "mission critical" applications. For one > > What do you mean by "mission critical" ? If it is running some program hmm. To tell the truth, I'm not sure what I mean. But then, that's the problem: I need to be able to explain to my boss, in down-to-earth terms, why we should go with Guile. I could easily show off the power of Scheme, in general, and specifically the simplicity of the Guile/C API (docs! docs! docs! ;) But sooner or later the age old question will arise: "how stable is it?" What do I say? I don't even understand the garbage collection mechanism. I went through the same song and dance with Python. Huh. Perl vs. Python All I really had to do was show the online docs, the big old book by Mark Lutz, and the survey of the many companies/organizations/agencies that use Python as their number one [so-called] scripting language. I could always wait another 5 years or so; surely Guile will be sufficiently impressive by then... It will sell itself. > I suppose you have some C interface for loading *.so, different from > other ones. You only need to add support for the AIX type of *.so modules > as a file dynl-aix.c (which should be no more than 50 lines code), > after the model in dynl-dl.c etc... > > dynl.c includes one of the above dynl-*.c files, and you can ensure > inserting dynl-aix.c through introducing (exemple) #define HAVE_AIX_SHARED. > This is best handled at configure level. I'll have a look. I have a foggy understanding of AIX DL mechanism (loading a *.so gives a pointer to the entrance function... I think). Anyone else on this list have AIX? Jay Glascoe jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov -- which is worse: ignorance or apathy? who knows. who cares.