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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: extension philosophy [was Re: audio servers]
Message-ID: <1990Mar18.191329.10787@alphalpha.com>
Date: 18 Mar 90 19:13:29 GMT
References: <776@auto-trol.UUCP> <9003121606.AA03191@expo.lcs.mit.edu> <4840@crltrx.crl.dec.com> <1837@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <3015@bacchus.dec.com> <780@auto-trol.UUCP>
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In article <780@auto-trol.UUCP> marbru@auto-trol.COM (Martin Brunecky) writes:
>	O.K. The problem I see is that all those really usefull
>	extensions will make the server HUGE. Example is the XNeWs
...
>	Another problem is extension loading/adding to the server.
>	Most users will depend on vendor provided servers, with very
>	little or no way to bind-in additional extensions, even though
>	such extensions could be provided by the third party.
...

Aren't all of these problems solved by simply having a server that
dynamically loads in extensions when they are requested?

							-kee
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