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Re: gEDA-user: [RFC 2/6] Plugin system



On Friday 16 January 2009 23:21:19 DJ Delorie wrote:
> Better would be to have the plugin itself have some well-known
> function that registers itself, like pcb's plugins do.  Thus, all you
> really have to do is dl_open() any .so's you find, and call their
> well-known function.

Having been stung by this in the past, I would prefer the majority of plugins 
to be "opt-in" than "opt-out" (i.e. loaded only when the current project 
needs to use them).

You can quite easily envisage loading different plugins for, say, gnucap 
simulation design and PCB design.

                            Peter


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Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd

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