Re: Re: pyrex as Prothon standard extension language

Joe Mason wrote:
> DSO = Dynamic Shared Object, a concept
> DLL = Dynamic Link Library, the Windows implementation
> SO = Shared Object, the Linux (and I assume many other Unixes, but not
> al) implementation
>
> This is chronologically reversed: instead of starting with the concept
> and then naming the implementations differently, various OS's picked
> different names for the concept and then people decided this made
> theoretical discussion too confusing and started using DSO.  And it's
> a lie, because DSO started as the name of the implementation on yet
> another Unix system, and it just so happened that it's the one that
> won out as the label for the concept.  And it's another lie, because
> DSO hasn't really won out, it's only used by a couple of large and
> visible products like Apache and libtdl (IIRC), but a huge mass of
> theoretical papers and stuff still use their own pet terms.  But it's
> accurate enough for us.

We are in the Apache family so DSO it is.

Our website statistics program shows the APR web page, which lists us as a
user of APR, as the number one referring site to Prothon .  We have a lot of
other referring sites but they are blogs that give us a blurb and a spike of
traffic but the APR site is a small constant.  Whenever slashdot or lwn
mentions us we get our biggest spikes of course, but that only lasts while
we are on the front page for a day or so.