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Re: gEDA-user: pcb plugin smartdisperse fails on load



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.


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Peter Clifton

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