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

[Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:29:08PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:48:39 +0000
> Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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'.

Octave does that for its octave-forge packages.  It's pretty cool
when it works.  It sucks when it doesn't.

   - Larry


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