From Richard.Beare@csiro.au  Fri Sep  6 09:23:33 2002
From: Richard.Beare@csiro.au (Richard.Beare@csiro.au)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:23:33 +1000
Subject: explict sharing of symbols between packages
Message-ID: <3D786605.92B582FE@csiro.au>

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about breaking up a large package I have to
avoid loading some of the more specialised parts when it
isn't necessary.

The package is dependent on shared libraries. The base one
will keep all of the core stuff like constructors etc and
the specialised parts will need to access these. It is
obviously possible to set the "local" flag to false, however
this becomes a dangerous, especially with the larger
package.

Is there any way to define a group of packages that share a
symbol table? That would seem to me to be a possible
solution.

Can anyone offer advice on this?

Thanks

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Richard Beare, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
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