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

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> 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

I completely agree Peter.

-Dan




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