Ron, I can't help thinking you're confused about something here. Internal or external makes no difference to the plugin. If you've written code that only works with it built and linked internal then you've written it wrong.
The *only* particular value to making a plugin internal is that it simplifies distribution for unix & windows platforms by having a single executable.
On 16-Oct-06, at 4:52 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Andreas,
Yeah we can do that already but it's been a major pain in the pa- toody too! That's why we want to go with an internal vm code. We lost one platform plugin and had to make a new one, and now with the des smalltalk representation if the plugin is not there it still works, just really badly (but good enough for testing).
I'm confused about "We lost one platform plugin" - can you expand on this?
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