[Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX

[Henri Lesourd]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

> In the case of Qt plugins the only thing to take care of is that the 
> plugin are develop with a version lower or equal than the one with 
> which TeXmacs was compiled, that's all.
That's the job of the plugin implementor, not ours.

> So, if this is the only reason for the glue library, I don't see a 
> very big added value.
The added value is that people can develop new widgets
independently, and load these widgets inside TeXmacs
*without the need of recompiling TeXmacs*.

Thus the mechanism is 100% dynamic, and without a glue
library which exports only a C API, it would not be
possible to do things this way (otherwise, recompiling
TeXmacs from source would be required each time you
modify your plugins).