Spin off PlatformApis thing into separate library

[thaiphan]

The whole cross-platform library loader helper stuff you guys have is pretty neat and I would like to use it for my own project. However, I'd rather not have a dependency on Kestrel so I just spun out the stuff I needed.

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[thaiphan]

Has anybody had the opportunity to have a look at the pull request?

[davidfowl]

If we do this, it would be a runtime interface and service. It shouldn't be in this repository. We'd also need a few more examples of APIs that could potentially use this. Do you have any other examples of consuming this?

[thaiphan]

Do you have any other examples of consuming this?

I was having trouble getting Edge.js working on Ubuntu and I'm pretty sure it's because of this line. The idea was make a pull request to Edge.js to take advantage of this spun off library.

We can replace the code written in this pull request with the library.

I think libgit2sharp might also be able to take advantage of the library.

[thaiphan]

I don't imagine my pull request is particularly high priority but I'd at least appreciate some communication indicating such.

[davidfowl]

Sorry about that. We're not likely going to take this pull request. FWIW, it has come up a few times having an API that can be used that's just like this. We haven't decided to make this the API and when we do decide, it might live in a separate repository, or even end up being a CLR API.

For now I'd recommend copying the code.