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A new milestone in modular portable programming is ready!
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The "Slottable Source Plugin Module" system (SSPM) is an idea that
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really is more than 3 years old but I was hesitating to announce it
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earlier. Now I can tell you that the new makefile system has been
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under test during the last 6 months and nobody complained about any
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problem caused by the SSPM.
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The portability overhead is currently about 2 MB. This turns a medium
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sized application like 'star' which is about 500 kB of pure source
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into a packet that is 5x as big as the pure source size.
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As all my applications are based on the Schily SING makefile system
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and share a common portability base it makes sense to share the
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advantages of the Schily makefile system with all users.
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Simple ideas like the SSPM are usually hard to understand by people
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from outside, so I try to describe the new system by giving you an
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example on how it is used:
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You may test the new system by first downloading the latest
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cdrtools package
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ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-1.11a11.tar.gz
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or newer. Then unpack the source tarball, chdir into the top level
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directory of the cdrtools package. Run 'make' and wait until the
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compilation has finished.
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So far, there is nothing new (except that some people may recognize
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that this is a 'smooth' fully integrated compilation and you don't need
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to call 'configure'.
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Now, to understand what a "Slottable Source Plugin Module" is, fetch
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another source. There is currently only one demo source that is ready
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for testing:
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ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/star-1.4a08-sspm.tar.gz
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Unpack this tarball in the top level directory of cdrtools and
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call 'make' again. The Schily makefile system does recognize that there
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is additional (uncompiled) source and will compile these new parts.
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As there is no need to run 'configure' again, compilation of the
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additional 'star' sources is much faster than the compilation of the
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complete 'star' source package would take.
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To understand how the "Slottable Source Plugin Module" system works,
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have a look into the TARGETS directory.....
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