RFC: libverto nearing release

Nathaniel McCallum npmccallum at redhat.com
Thu Jul 7 12:21:22 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 12:08 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> On 7/7/2011 11:43 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
> >> In short, I'm not super worried about a win32 port. At best, I think it
> >> will change some of the internal semantics. I'm mostly focused now on
> >> getting it to build/work on non-linux.
> > 
> > I think you should worry about Windows.  Also, dladdr() is present in
> > Linux and Solaris, so it's really the BSDs you should worry about.
> 
> Relying on a loose bundle of DLLs to represent pluggable modules is no
> longer the preferred mechanism on Windows.  Instead, modules should be
> packaged and distributed as signed side-by-side assemblies.  The
> assemblies can be loaded at run-time via a manifest.
> 
> The existing KFW libraries have significant issues when linked to IIS
> modules partly because it is impossible to ensure that all IIS modules
> have the same KFW version as dependencies.

Patches welcome. ;)




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