[ITA] tcl-sqlite3
Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jan 14 21:39:00 GMT 2014
On 2014-01-14 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> In how far does that affect the filename? We're adding new APIs
> to Cygwin all the time, but the DLL is still called cygwin1.dll.
> And that's how it works for any other DLL as well as long as it
> doesn't break backward compatibility, API-wise.
This is a loadable module, not a link library, and unlike other language
interpreters which load extensions directly based on file name, Tcl
package-type extensions are loaded based on a metadata file
(pkgIndex.tcl). It is actually typical of Tcl extensions to be
versioned in this way.
Yaakov
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