[Insight-developers] Dynamic loaders and 2 separate versions

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Hans,

I agree with you, we should remove this duplication.

However, for Backward Compatibility, we probably
will call the kwsys version from the ITK class.
(e.g. just do a delegation pattern).


    Luis


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Hans Johnson wrote:
> Hello All,
> There are two files that deal with Dynamic loading of libraries that seem to
> be derived from the same basic premise:
> 
> Utilities/kwsys/DynamicLoader.cxx Code/Common/itkDynamicLoader.cxx
> 
> It seems that the kwsys version is more up-to date, and deals with some
> changes to the recent MacOSX OS that make it more unix compliant.
> 
> I would recommend that the itkDynamicLoader.cxx file be reviewed, and
> removed if possible.  If there are really itk needed specializaations, then
> I would propose that the recent changes to the kwsys version be merged into
> the itkDynamicLoader.cxx version.
> 
> I am willing to attempt this, but the world of shared library dynamic
> loading is beyond my comfort level ( I am very glad that the there are smart
> people on the ITK team to magically take care of this for me!).
> 
> Please let me know if I can help, and what precautions should be taken in
> merging these two files.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hans
> 
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