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Re: When a "shim" is not a "shim"?

Subject: Re: When a "shim" is not a "shim"?
From: "Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting" <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:42:21 -0400

Kevin:
Then, they expand support to a couple of previously
unsupported variants. To do so, the company finds
that they need to make some straightforward, yet far-reaching changes to their libraries. In the short term, they opt instead
to create an add-on or shim library that handles the differences peculiar to the new OS variants, without disturbing the stable
and tested performance of the main libraries on all the other OS variants.

Geoff responded:

if these are "add ons", call it the "add on" library. Apple, not being one to accept the simple solution, used to call their hardware-specific software plug-ins "enablers",

K@ adds:
How about another word from the Apple lexicon: extension. You are extending the existing capabilities of the system by making the features available to additional operating systems. When you [excuse me, "the company"] produces the next major release, the marketing weenies can make big noises about supporting all the OSes without needing the extensions.

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When a "shim" is not a "shim"?: From: Hart, Geoff

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