From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA25459 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 04:30:09 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA03436; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:26:40 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:26:40 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Stephens Message-ID: <199611081726.SAA13473@cantecler.math.ruu.nl> Subject: Re: Handling for ZLE modules To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 18:26:34 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <28077.199611081716@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from "Zefram" at Nov 8, 96 05:16:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"O3tH92.0.cr.FrsWo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2345 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > And if anyone's counting, I, too, favour the name `zmodload'. > > -zefram > > (Own up, how many of us are planning how to implement autoloaded modules?) Well, of course modules should be autoloaded! More generally, are people making sure that this mechanism is nice on machines which can't do autoloading? i.e., are the modules written in such a way that they can be statically linked too? I note in passing that Tcl7.5 and above also have dynamic loading, complete with autoconf support. It's not as portable as Perl's, I think, but it may be easier to follow and adapt for zsh. (ksh93 is also an obvious model to copy, although we don't have source to that. It would presumably be nice to allow people to load ksh93 modules into zsh, if that's feasible.)