Re: [RFC] Module language syntax

[Joshua Brindle <jbrindle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 19:53 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:17:33PM -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> 
> > installation. The production environment then does not need a build
> > environment such as make, m4 and so on. The module tools will allow
> > these modules to be "linked in" to the current policy. It's at this link
> > time that both the modules dependencies and the optional dependencies
> > are determined and optionals with fulfilled dependencies are enabled.
>  
>  i take it that booleans are ... just... added / supported, too?
> 
>  such that they are declared in the binary module, used in the binary
>  module, added to the config files and can be set at runtime, yes/
> 
>  l.
> 

booleans and conditionals are runtime and are not at all affected by the
loadable modules. The optional dependencies added for modules are
totally separate from conditionals and are much closer to m4 ifdefs in
practice and could hopefully be used to replace many of them.

Joshua Brindle


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