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On 03/11/2009 02:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> In terms of compatibility and least surprising behavior, what about
> accepting dlopen ("bla.so") and looking for "bla.dll"?

No, Ruby and Apache2 (among others) use .so on all platforms, including 
native Win32.


Yaakov

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