On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:48:39 +0000 Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:45 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I was thinking, pcb probably will end up needing a command line > > option to print the right compiler options to build plugins with... > > especially with the option to use C or C++ now. > > They call that "pkgconfig" in the Gnome-ish world, although it isn't > Gnome specific. libgeda uses it. It is aimed at libraries, but I think > it could be made to do what we want. > > You could add it to PCB I guess - we could even teach PCB how to > invoke the compiler and build plugins if we were feeling over-keen! > (But perhaps that is encroaching on being too clever). That would actually be very cool. Third-party (non-core) plugins could be distributed as '.c' source files which you load into pcb and it automatically compiles them on the fly and loads the resulting '.so'. Regards, Colin
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