[Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > Right, things such as dynamically switching from the Xlib or Cocoa 
> > frontends to the Qt frontend are not very interesting to me.
>
> I don't want to dynamically switch from Xlib
> to cocoa or Qt: what I want is, in the context
> of one given toolkit (e.g., Qt), to be able to
> load a chunk of *new* code which has been developed
> independently.

You mean with another Qt?

> Thus, a TeXmacs user could install TeXmacs
> via RPM, then independently develop a
> new kind of e.g., Qt filechooser, wrap
> it inside a dynamic library, and finally
> load this dll inside TeXmacs without ever
> needing to recompile TeXmacs.

OK, AFAIU you'll be able to keep better compatibility of such plugins 
across versions of TeXmacs. But that's the only added feature of such 
kind of plugins.

> This would bring complete extensibility
> of the TeXmacs's widget set, and would
> free *us* (i.e. the TeXmacs developers)
> from the need to develop such new widgets
> ourselves.

Many C++ programs have plugin support. In the case of Qt plugins the 
only thing to take care of is that the plugin are develop with a version 
lower or equal than the one with which TeXmacs was compiled, that's all.

So, if this is the only reason for the glue library, I don't see a very 
big added value.

Abdel.