[crossfire] About "glue" code

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      What's the use of the "glue" code? In glue.c, and the callback
     
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      functions, in the library.
     
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     From what I understand, it was supposed to be for the Python plugin.
     
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      But the fun part is that is doesn't work under Win32: the library is
     
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      generated as static, so plugin and server have each their own without
     
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      any shared data.
     
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      So I was pondering simply cleaning/removing that. That would imply
     
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      fixing plugin system, too, as all functions should be callbacks and
     
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      not directly hooking to server (like add_string that does *not* work
     
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      between plugin and server under Win32...).
     
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      Opinions?
     
     
  It could certainly go away.  I suppose a few people still use crossedit, but 
that could be fixed similar to the client - any things that common needs to call 
that exist elsewhere, the editor could just define as empty dummy functions.

  I'm not sure if that really fixes thing on win32 or not - it would seem to me 
that having the common area be a static library that gets linked into the plugin 
will ever really work right - I note that on linux, crosslib isn't linked in as 
part of the plugin process.