Dave, On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:38, Dave Howorth wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 22 January 2006 13:16, Linda Walsh wrote:
Programs could automatically what libraries were present at runtime and enable/disable certain feature sets.
It's possible, but not common.
This feature is often called 'plugins'. It is widely used in some applications, less so in others. The ease of doing it also depends on the facilities provided by the language or other framework, not just the operating system.
Indeed. For example, it's far easier in Java since all the basic mechanisms of on-demand, by-name class loading are part of the language and / or its standard libraries and they are all 100% identical no matter what O.S. hosts the JVM executing your program.
Cheers, Dave
Randall Schulz