Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

that is how mash works ... you augment it's command set by loading
modules (for example "make").

brucee

On 4/20/06, Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:35:27PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > i think there is a #3 here.  extension.
> >
> > dynamic linking allows one to extend a program without inventing a metalanguage.
> > i believe there is a paper on how inferno's shell uses this to nice effect.
>
>  I think you're confusing two notions here. What you're talking about
>  sounds more like dynamic loading, not dynamic linking. And with dynamic
>  loading the control is *explicitly* at client's possession. You're
>  supposed to know what to dlopen, what to look for inside, etc. Such
>  a controlled environment lets you be much more precise and avoid
>  many of the shortcomings of the true "dynamic linking".
>
>  Now, it would be interesting to know what others think about the need
>  for dynamic loading in Plan9.
>
>  Personally, my dream has always been to make all of the applications
>  which rely heavily on console input-output to be dynamically loaded
>  on top of each other, so that when I do something like:
>
>    $ bash
>    <long session with bash, with lots of useful stuff in history and such>
>    $ gdb
>
>  I don't leave shell (and lose all of the context) but I rather have
>  my shell augmented with gdb commands. Sort of like Tcl works with
>  external modules.
>
>  Have anybody thought about anything likes this ?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>