Re: [MiNT] LDG

["olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr" <Olivier.Landemarre@utbm.fr>]

Selon evan@coolrunningconcepts.com:

> Hi guys,
>
> Just a couple quick questions.
>
> While I think adding a plugin interface to MiNT instead of using the LDG
> cookie
> scheme would be possibly safer and a cleaner API, the fact remains that LDG
> is
> already in use and working, and it does use the /SHM filesystem so it should
> work just as well just like it is - in spite of the fact that I hate TSRs.
I agree, this the only code not protect in this systeme, I totaly agree with
this, notice if TSR is not install, LDG application can work without if libs are
relative place to application, in this case share of the lib is impossible. As
LDG should work on all systems, we not find any solution to enhance system, now
we can add new way to load LDG, futur software could use it. Or someone can do a
kernel module for Mint, it should quite easy transpose TSR in this I agree or I
add this directly in AES but it's perhaps not the best place but it's easy to do
for me, we can do twice. After this all application should be compil, as I know
all applications using it are still support by authors this should not be a
problem.

> I'm
> not sure if it would cleanup as well as a real filesystem interface would if
> the
> application opening the library crashes before it can call ldg_close() but
> maybe
> the author already took care of that possibility, and to be honest, I'm not
> going to worry about it!
Application can crash, with SHM scheme it should not be free by system.
>
> Anyway, is it valid to give a full path or relative path to ldg_open()?
LDG support full path, relative path and a specific folder and should soon
support relative folder from this specific folder, even if full path is provide
if can't find it is search in specific and relative folder.

We will soon provide CVS for ldg on sourceforges.

> was
> thinking namespaces could be implemented simply by adding path components
> and
> it might work out of the box.
>
> Someone said they had an stguide HYP to HTML translator (in perl I think).
> Anyone know where I could get a copy of that?  It would make reading this
> documentation much easier.
>
> Thanks,
> Evan Langlois

Olivier


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