Re: One library to contain them all (DAL, Plugins, etc)

["nshmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

>On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:04 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Since we seem to always need highly-specialized APIs, and given that we
>> might be targeting the removal of libgnome/libgnomeui, here's a
>> proposal:
>> 
>> http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/news.php?14/January/2005
>> 
>> what do you think?
>
>	╚An Application class, not for having an application's main window, but
>as an easy way for applications to register services to be called from
>other applications. All enterprise/extended/foundation classes used by
>the application could be automatically registered as services via the
>Application class and thus make them available to external
>applications.╩
>
>  I know there is a general trend to deprecate bonobo (which I deeply
>regret), but libbonobo has, since 2.6, BonoboApplication and
>BonoboAppClient. See [1] and [2].  Coupled with bonobo-activation, it
>can be used to register services.
>
>  Regards.
>

Also bonobo + bonobo activation implements very advanced architecure for "plugins". In your terms it has plugins database with query API, plugin discovery service, plugin manage service, 
plugin naming service and lots of useful things. 

Probably, libbonobo is the library that we needs :)

>[1]
>http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libbonobo/libbonobo-bonobo-application.html
>[2]
>http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libbonobo/libbonobo-bonobo-app-client.html
>
>-- 
>Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
><gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
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