Re: Vim for Windows (Updated to 7.4.193)

Alexander Shukaev wrote:
> It seems like there is too much confusion about the terms. I just want
> to make it clear with obvious examples because describing it with
> words seems to only worsen the confusion.
>
> `gcc vim.o python33.dll -o vim` is linking `vim` against
> `python33.dll` at compile time, i.e. introducing automatic explicit
> dependency of `vim` to `python33.dll`. In this case, to start `vim`
> users would be forced to have `python33.dll` or get error otherwise.
>
> `LoadLibrary("python33")` (on Windows) or `dlopen("python33",
> RTLD_NOW)` (on Unix) is dynamically loading `python33.dll` or
> `libpython33.so` by `vim`, i.e. not introducing automatic explicit
> dependency of `vim` to `python33.dll` or `libpython33.so`. In this
> case, to start `vim` users are not forced to have `python33.dll` or
> `libpython33.so`, but if they have one, it will be loaded by this
> system call and Python would be usable from Vim.
>
> Do you call these 2 approaches of shared library/DLL management the
> other way around?
> ----

Confusing the issue is that shared libraries can be linked statically or
dynamically.

private libraries are almost always (I don't know of any exceptions off
hand) linked statically.

I think I understand that you are using the feature that was used first
used with the iconv library and the perl.so library. It was later
expanded to include trendier languages, but why would you disable the
choice for anything but your own private version?? If you are
developing a distribution for the community, to do the best for that
community, you would turn on all of the "run-time" loadable languages
and features that you could and let the community users decide how to
make use of that resource.

I asked the question -- since you are not linking the libraries in
statically, then you aren't
introducing any "load-time" dependencies, so why not just allow anything
that vim can load to be loaded? So why disable hooks that are
already there?




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