From: nobu@...
Date: 2014-12-19T19:22:11+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:66981] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5458] DL should be removed

Issue #5458 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.


Charles Nutter wrote:
> Well, DL depends on libdl, right?

Yes on some platforms, no on others.
Usually `dlopen()` is a part of system-provided features, regardless of the library to be linked.
And different APIs are used on Windows, of course.

> Maybe we make it a default gem?

One of the main problems is Win32API.
It's used very often.

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Feature #5458: DL should be removed 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5458#change-50513

* Author: Motohiro KOSAKI
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Aaron Patterson
* Category: ext
* Target version: current: 2.2.0
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DL and fiddle are redundant. Moreover DL has no maintainer and its code is problematic.



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