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

["Mark Rages" <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>>Currently, Scheme is the only available extension language for
>>gEDA. However, in future it may be desirable to extend gEDA apps in
>>other languages, including possibly as native code loaded from .so
>>files.
>>
>
>        No objections with the following constraints:
>
>        - All plugins should be "opt-in".
>        - No enabled plugins by default (to start with; subject to
>          careful review and discussion); no undiscussed and agreed upon
>          plugin enabling.
>        - Any plugins enabled by default (in the future) should not be
>          used to stealthly circumvent current defaults or behavior.
>        - It would be really nice to refactor existing scheme functionality
>          into plugins.
>        - Plugin mechanism must be portable.
>        - Initial focus should probably be on scheme-centric plugins;
>          native plugins can come later.
>
>                                                                -Ales
>

Can someone define "plug-in" for me?

What is the advantage, given that the whole project is open-source?

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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