Loading externals

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/17/03 12:26 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 09:10 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> On 6/17/03 9:19 AM, Thierry Arbellot wrote:
>>
>>> I think external is loaded before system messages are sent,
>>> I have a stack that call successfully external commands in the 
>>> preOpenStack script of the main stack.
>>
>>
>> Excellent -- thank you very much. That's what I thought, but it is 
>> good to have confirmation.
> 
> 
> Loading on demand is also consistent with this observation.

The docs say that externals are loaded "when the stack is opened", which 
is why I wondered if that happened before or after any system messages 
are sent. If a preOpenStack handler works with an external, then 
presumably it is loaded before system messages activate.

> I wonder if calls can be made in startup.

It would be a good experiment, which I can try if I get some time. Even 
easier would be if someone in the know would just tell us. ;)


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