On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 17:35 +0100, fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
  On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:08:54PM -0400, David
Robillard wrote:
  ...  This is exactly
 like blaming the shared library mechanism for the fact that there's no
 open source shared library to do realtime granular resynthesis, or
 whatever. 
 It's very different. If I want to write a library to do
 realtime granular synthesis I don't have to extend the
 shared library mechanism first, or write a new dynamic
 linker. 
You don't need to extend the extension mechanism first (I don't even
know what this means...) or write a new host either.
Shared library, you get a thing by filename, it has code in it.
Extension, you get a thing by URI, it has code in it.
It is not "very different" at all.
-dr