[Distutils] Standardizing distribution of "plugins" for extensible apps

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 8, 2004, at 9:37, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Dec 8, 2004, at 8:35, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>> IOW, if you have a directory set up on LD_LIBRARY_PATH or its 
>> equivalent, can't you just dump the libraries and C extensions there?
>
> Darwin has a pair of environment variables that are sort-of equivalent 
> to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, however, their values are cached by the runtime 
> linker (dyld) as soon as a process starts.  Since a new process has to 
> be started to use these from this environment anyway, (a) is the 
> better option because setting these environment variables have 
> panDYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH has penalties associated 
> with it.

I guess it's too early for me to be multitastking, but that was 
supposed to say "these environment variables have penalties associated 
with them".

-bob