On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 10:32 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:28:10PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > I think if we continue with plugins the way we do, we need some API to > > advertise an API version, and means for plugins to load (or fail to > > load) based upon compatibility with a given version. > > It's funny that those plugins broke due to missing "malloc" wrappers. > That's the least of what they know about the internals of PCB. A big > attraction to me of keeping plugins bundled with the PCB source (for > "known" plugins of general utility) is the possibility that someone > making a source mod might find and update the plugin dependencies. One was also broken due to me renaming a multi-purposed global variable into two (new) names to clarify the context it was being used in (layers or groups). In-tree "plugins" is a +1 from me, as I hate to think of the level of breakage we could cause if we do more drastic re-factoring of PCB. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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