1     A new milestone in modular portable programming is ready!
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3The "Slottable Source Plugin Module" system (SSPM) is an idea that
4really is more than 3 years old but I was hesitating to announce it
5earlier. Now I can tell you that the new makefile system has been
6under test during the last 6 months and nobody complained about any
7problem caused by the SSPM.
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9The portability overhead is currently about 2 MB. This turns a medium
10sized application like 'star' which is about 500 kB of pure source
11into a packet that is 5x as big as the pure source size.
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13As all my applications are based on the Schily SING makefile system
14and share a common portability base it makes sense to share the
15advantages of the Schily makefile system with all users.
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17Simple ideas like the SSPM are usually hard to understand by people
18from outside, so I try to describe the new system by giving you an
19example on how it is used:
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22You may test the new system by first downloading the latest
23cdrtools package
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25	https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/alpha/
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27Then unpack the source tarball, chdir into the top level
28directory of the cdrtools package. Run 'make' and wait until the
29compilation has finished.
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31So far, there is nothing new (except that some people may recognize
32that this is a 'smooth' fully integrated compilation and you don't need
33to call 'configure'.
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35Now, to understand what a "Slottable Source Plugin Module" is, fetch
36another source. There is currently only one demo source that is ready
37for testing:
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39	http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar/files/star-1.4-sspm.tar.gz
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41Unpack this tarball in the top level directory of cdrtools and
42call 'make' again. The Schily makefile system does recognize that there
43is additional (uncompiled) source and will compile these new parts.
44As there is no need to run 'configure' again, compilation of the
45additional 'star' sources is much faster than the compilation of the
46complete 'star' source package would take.
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48To understand how the "Slottable Source Plugin Module" system works,
49have a look into the TARGETS directory.....
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