Re: [go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-04 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 3:01 AM, dc0d wrote: > > Some clarifications on future of plugins would be nice though. To be honest I thought plugins would have fewer problems than they would up having. And in any case the API seems fine, so any reworking can preserve the API. I think the future of plu

Re: [go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-04 Thread dc0d
Thanks for the post! I don't think those caveats could be a setback. Some clarifications on future of plugins would be nice though. On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 6:32:22 PM UTC+4:30, Nick Groenen wrote: > > On 2017-06-02 19:24:40, Michael Brown wrote: > >Do you have any references on the stabili

Re: [go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-03 Thread Nick Groenen
On 2017-06-02 19:24:40, Michael Brown wrote: Do you have any references on the stability of the current plugin system that I can use for reference? I'm building a system now that I contemplate using with some plugins and I'd like to know up front the challenges. I wrote a blogpost on plugins e

[go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-03 Thread Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
The best real world example I know of mixing cgo and plugins is https://github.com/eawsy/aws-lambda-go-shim and it works pretty well. It compiles a go program as a native library using cgo, which is loading some more golang code compiled as a plugin. The native library also happens to implement

Re: [go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Brown
Do you have any references on the stability of the current plugin system that I can use for reference? I'm building a system now that I contemplate using with some plugins and I'd like to know up front the challenges. On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 7:39:40 PM UTC-5, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Fr

Re: [go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:55 PM, dc0d wrote: > > Assuming we have some cgo packages, is it fine to place them inside a plugin > (added in Go 1.8)? > > It seems to ease deployment (on the same platform) and save some compilation > time. But I'm not sure if it's safe to do so, mixing cgo & plugins.

[go-nuts] CGO & Plugins

2017-06-02 Thread dc0d
Assuming we have some *cgo* packages, is it fine to place them inside a plugin (added in Go 1.8)? It seems to ease deployment (on the same platform) and save some compilation time. But I'm not sure if it's safe to do so, mixing cgo & plugins. -- You received this message because you are subsc