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reply Will DeVore (Quartz) <quartz13163 distanthumans.info> writes:
Just a quick question:

Does anyone know if Dynamic class loading will be added to D in the relatively
near future? And if it is would it follow OSGi's standards?

-Will.
Feb 02 2007
parent reply kris <foo bar.com> writes:
Will DeVore (Quartz) wrote:

 Just a quick question:
 
 Does anyone know if Dynamic class loading will be added to D in the relatively
near future? And if it is would it follow OSGi's standards?
 
 -Will.


Take a look here: http://dsource.org/projects/ddl ?
Feb 02 2007
next sibling parent reply Pragma <ericanderton yahoo.removeme.com> writes:
kris wrote:

 Will DeVore (Quartz) wrote:

 Just a quick question:

 Does anyone know if Dynamic class loading will be added to D in the 
 relatively near future? And if it is would it follow OSGi's standards?

 -Will.


 
 Take a look here: http://dsource.org/projects/ddl ?


The project is admittedly a bit behind (pre 1.0 support only), but that's
expected to change soon.

At a minimum, this demonstrates that the hard parts (loading and binding of OMF
files) are indeed possible; the rest is 
merely getting up to speed with the latest symbol mangling and library support
in D.

-- 
- EricAnderton at yahoo
Feb 02 2007
parent reply Henrik Eneroth <zodiachus gmail.com> writes:
Pragma wrote:

 kris wrote:

 Will DeVore (Quartz) wrote:

 Just a quick question:

 Does anyone know if Dynamic class loading will be added to D in the 






relatively near future? And if it is would it follow OSGi's standards?

 -Will.


 Take a look here: http://dsource.org/projects/ddl ?


 The project is admittedly a bit behind (pre 1.0 support only), but 


that's expected to change soon.

 At a minimum, this demonstrates that the hard parts (loading and 


binding of OMF files) are indeed possible; the rest is merely getting up 
to speed with the latest symbol mangling and library support in D.


Does dynamic class loading have to be added via libraries a la DDL or 
could we somehow threaten Walter until he adds language-level support 
for it? :)



 Feb 02 2007



  parent  Pragma <ericanderton yahoo.removeme.com>  writes:


Henrik Eneroth wrote:

 Pragma wrote:
  > kris wrote:
  >> Will DeVore (Quartz) wrote:
  >>> Just a quick question:
  >>>
  >>> Does anyone know if Dynamic class loading will be added to D in the 
 relatively near future? And if it is would it follow OSGi's standards?
  >>>
  >>> -Will.
  >>
  >> Take a look here: http://dsource.org/projects/ddl ?
  >
  > The project is admittedly a bit behind (pre 1.0 support only), but 
 that's expected to change soon.
  >
  > At a minimum, this demonstrates that the hard parts (loading and 
 binding of OMF files) are indeed possible; the rest is merely getting up 
 to speed with the latest symbol mangling and library support in D.
  >
 Does dynamic class loading have to be added via libraries a la DDL or 
 could we somehow threaten Walter until he adds language-level support 
 for it? :)


I don't know what Walter's position is on this stuff.  FWIW, I've noticed that
as his time is usually pretty limited, 
he's kept to improving the language grammar and compiler itself.  If a
third-party library solves a particular problem 
for D, it almost never makes it into phobos unless it's a small module that
doesn't replace what's already in other 
modules.  So since we now have projects like DDL and FlectionD, I seriously
doubt Walter will duplicate the effort, just 
for the sake of developer convenience.

Also as Walter's time is limited, this means that bugfixes and improvements to
various library features will have a 
longer turnaround.  IMO, we're better off with lots of small libs than one big
core one - even for stuff like this.

-- 
- EricAnderton at yahoo



 Feb 02 2007



prev sibling  parent  William R. DeVore <quartz13163 distanthumans.info>  writes:


kris Wrote:


 Will DeVore (Quartz) wrote:

 Just a quick question:
 
 Does anyone know if Dynamic class loading will be added to D in the relatively
near future? And if it is would it follow OSGi's standards?
 
 -Will.


 
 Take a look here: http://dsource.org/projects/ddl ?


Interesting. I looked around the site and noticed a link for class loading,
however, the link isn't complete. I guess DDL can do class loading. It
certainly does module loading. :)



 Feb 02 2007