Alessandro Coppo wrote:

> I think a sanctioned, Leveller-like plug-in architecture would be great.
> Instead of having to mix and much unofficial patches, you would just have to
> register a plug-in and call it in a standardized way from POv-Ray scripts.
> By the way, I have started playing with Linux (besides Win32) and I saw that
> also in Linux you have DLLs (even if they are called differently). So,
> Windows has DLLs, Linux has DLLs, I presume that other UNIX flavours have
> something like DLLs, Macs have the equivalent, VMS has shared libraries....
> I think every target of POV-Ray has the system support for DLLs, so PLEASE:
> dynamically loaded plug-ins!!!!
>
>

You know that a shared lib is slower than statically linked code. well now you
do :)
Also it can be quite hard to support this in a generic way.  But I could be
done I think if the build system is converted to gnu autoconf/libtool. Libtool
take care of all the hairy things involving dll's

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