Re: Fwd: Re: [Plex86-devel] Release Schedule

[Eric Laberge]

When I said I was looking to a COM-like design, I was mainly referring 
to the idea of having instanciable components and standard and 
compatible interfaces. My prototype implementation is very clean and 
completely usable. And it is 100% standard C. You can see it in any way, 
but any plugin structure can only be done with these elements. I only 
suggest we define a standard, non-bloated and portable structure. The 
current one is filled with legacy stuff, and undocumented, and [insert 
evil attribute here].

You mentionned guile, can you elaborate on how it can be used?

By referring to GUSS, do you mean sharing emulated devices? From what I 
see, it seems like a generic Bochs.

BTW, I completely agree we should rewrite at least the Bochs plugin from 
scratch.

EL

Jeroen Dekkers wrote:

> IMHO we should write something from scratch:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guss. There is already code for
> powerpc which is working a little bit. Note that GUSS is made for OS
> development, not for running windows, but that doesn't mean that it
> will be impossible to run windows.
>
> And COM really sucks, you should avoid it. I've seen it in OSKit, it
> just sucks for the C language. You should use a CORBA IDL compiler if
> you want something like COM.
>
>  
>
> > BTW, I already have a working new config file format, so don't bother with
> > this one.
> >    
>
> IMHO guile is the perfect system for configuration.
>
> Jeroen Dekkers
>