From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh: future and loadable modules
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:32:21 +0000 () [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199608271632.QAA06609@rio.atlantic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199608271953.PAA25249@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Richard Coleman" at Aug 27, 96 03:53:06 pm
According to Richard Coleman:
> before everyone starts rejoicing at this idea, realize it is non-trivial
> and will require work, and will greatly complicate parts of the code.
It needn't be too hard. Consider fvwm2 and Perl; both use loadable
modules to excellent effect. In particular, Perl's extension system
is easy to use and very powerful.
That said, I would consider it important to put all /bin/sh behavior
in the base executable. Otherwise you could end up with a seriously
broken system and no way to recover.
> Also, I wanted to say I think zsh has made great progress over the last
> couple of years. Thanks to all who worked on it.
Ditto.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@atlantic.net>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of
existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."
-- Crow T. Robot, _Mystery_Science_Theater_3000_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-27 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-15 18:17 zsh-3.0.0 released Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-15 18:57 ` zsh-3.0.0 installed in the US Tom Kaczmarski
1996-08-16 4:18 ` Andrew Cosgriff
1996-08-16 11:55 ` Tom Kaczmarski
1996-08-20 1:32 ` Andrew Cosgriff
1996-08-20 12:55 ` Tom Kaczmarski
1996-08-15 19:56 ` zsh-3.0.0 released John Harres
1996-08-15 20:14 ` Richard Coleman
1996-08-15 20:27 ` John Harres
1996-08-15 21:22 ` Richard Coleman
1996-08-15 21:35 ` Wayne Davison
1996-08-27 14:25 ` Distribution terms Greg J. Badros
1996-08-27 15:28 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-27 15:37 ` Bruce Stephens
1996-08-27 17:04 ` Greg J. Badros
1996-08-27 18:58 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-27 19:04 ` Zefram
1996-08-27 19:25 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-27 19:53 ` future of zsh Richard Coleman
1996-08-27 16:32 ` Chip Salzenberg [this message]
1996-08-28 9:03 ` zsh: future and loadable modules Bruce Stephens
1996-08-27 20:23 ` future of zsh Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-27 20:20 ` Distribution terms Zefram
1996-08-27 20:32 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-27 16:37 ` Richard Coleman
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