Differences between modules and library modules.

[Lennart Öhman]

Library modules was something we "invented" when we started
to think about release upgrades in run-time in BOS (the predecesor
of OTP). We needed a definition (though we never did a formal one)
of modules in which processes made "quick visits", but never had
any prevailing references to. A library module can therefore,
in most situations, be replaced and the old version purged without
much thinking in to the consequences.

/Lennart


Ulf Wiger wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Enrique Marcote Peña wrote:
> 
> 
>>What are the differences between a module and a "library
>>module"?
> 
> 
> I would guess that a library module is one that does not
> describe the control a process. lists.erl would be a typical
> library module. I don't know that there is a formal division
> between library and non-library module (what would you call
> gen_server?)
 > ...


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