From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21945 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2000 14:53:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Jun 2000 14:53:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 17686 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2000 14:53:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 11729 Received: (qmail 17679 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2000 14:53:15 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Peter Stephenson" , "Zsh hackers list" Subject: RE: Use and abuse of dynamic loading RE: Getting dynamic loading towork on cygwin Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:52:56 +0400 Message-ID: <000201bfcca2$3cf412a0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-reply-to: <0FVJ00HC06P518@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> Importance: Normal > > I don't know what you mean by this. In perl, you use `use Module' to > include a module, which may have compiled data, and may have autoload > capability. In zsh, you use `zmodload -ab foo' and its > friends to specify > that foo is loadable from a module; you don't need to > recompile to do that. > What's the difference? Yes, sorry, I overlooked it. I mostly thought about these magic modules that are always autoloaded, like zle and completion, and file bltinmods.list. This one is generated at compile time. Do you mean that zsh doesn't come > with a separate > kit to allow you to compile new modules without the original > compilation > environment? > Yes, that's it. -andrej