Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit UNFINISHED] Add the ability to write plugins in golang.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 06:04:26PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 05:27:07PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Similar to C, OCaml and Rust, this is not a plugin per se. Instead > > > it's more of a method and set of tests around writing plugins in > > > golang. They are standalone programs that compile into shared objects > > > that nbdkit can then load (so there is no "go plugin" between nbdkit > > > and the user plugin, unlike in scripting languages like Perl). > > > > Why did you choose this approach ? > > Do you mean the design of constructing the .so file directly using > --buildmode=c-shared? I wasn't aware there was any other way to do > it. Should we use some kind of module loading instead? No, I was mostly meaning the "copylib" approach to plugins, where the plugin author owns the whole stack.