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# Introduction

Sif is a portable C and C++ library for dynamic loading of shared libraries
(e.g. on GNU/Linux, these are the files with '.so' extension). A very common use
is finding and loading plugins at program runtime.

Sif is part of the Partager project.

The [[releases]] page provides a news feed of Sif's releases. The first one on
the list is the most recent release. Sif is still very young so there is no
stability guarantee. On the other hand it's very simple so I don't expect to do
much API/ABI breaking (but again, can't promise yet).

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# Download

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# Documentation

See here: [[documentation]].

# RSS, Mailing Lists and Chat

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# "License"

Sif is free software, and is committed to software freedom. It is released under
the General Public License version 3 (GPLv3+).

# Related Software

- Sif requires SGP as a build dependency. SGP is a collection of general-purpose
  C++ utilities and is part of the Partager project too.
- Sif was started to be used as a backend for [[/projects/Tosaf]],
  which is a C++ plugin framework. Tosaf in turn was started to be used to
  implement plugins for [[projects/Razom/Dilosi]], an API for working
  with [[projects/Razom/Smaoin]] databases. 

# Bugs and Patches

See here: [[tickets]].

# History

For some initial plans from the time Sif was started, see [[history]].