[GRASS5] Re: GRASS - Prototypes and encapsulation

[Eric G . Miller]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:37:21AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
<snip>
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 07:40:26PM -0700, B Drapeau wrote:
> > 
> > Good Evening Markus, 
<snip>  
> >  -- Will GRASS be modularised and designed 
> >    with reentrant and thread-safe programming 
> >    interfaces (libraries)?
> Again yes. Currently I cannot describe the status, probably
> the others can say more?

Making GRASS thread-safe might be a large undertaking.  There is quite
alot of static variables both within libraries and modules to maintain
state information.  These would have to be replaced with other
mechanisms (such as encapsulating state in an "object" structure).
IMHO, first is to get shared libraries going (libtool anyone?).

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