[Wocky] SASL vs. GSSAPI

Greg Hudson ghudson at MIT.EDU
Thu Dec 15 02:49:34 EST 2005


One of the issues with dynamic loading is that the Gaim code needs to
know the signatures of each function it wants to load.  Simon's strategy
was to include a copy of the krb5 gssapi.h, hacked up so that instead of
declaring functions, it declared types.  I don't think that approach
would be acceptable to the Gaim people, and I'm curious what TechTime
does.

I suspect that whatever we send upstream will need to use a more
conventional strategy of linking to dependency libraries.  Other
protocol plugins have their own library dependencies, I believe, and I
don't think they use dynamic loading.  I can look into that more.



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