Re: [boost] Any interest in static plugins?

Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in static plugins?
From: Dave van Soest (dsoest_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-03 15:17:05

Hi Christian, Robert, others interested,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts in this discussion. I'll try to 
summarize your posts in this way: you both don't think it is possible to 
create this static plugin functionality using static initialization and 
get it working on every supported platform.

Well, I've already created a early version of this library and 
successfully tested it on two different platforms with three different 
compilers (two on each platform). I also think it conforms to the C++ 
standard in the way it uses static initialization (see my post dated 
2009-11-30 14:00:54). Additionally I ran a successful test using shared 
libraries and dynamic plugins. Unfortunately I currently don't have more 
platforms and compilers to test the library with, but hopefully I will 
soon find a way to do this.

I'm very much interested to learn whether this library will work on 
other platforms, for example the platform Robert describes in his first 
post to this thread.

My (now slightly adjusted) question still is: in the hypothetical 
situation that this library works across all supported platforms, would 
there be any interest to include it in Boost?

Best regards,
Dave van Soest