Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

James \"Doc\" Livingston wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 13:09 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>[...]
>> How does this relate to python eggs[2]?  And if it doesn't, why not?
>> It seems to me that if there's an upstream project that handles a lot
>> of this, then it would be beneficial to simply re-use it.
>
> For Python plugins that could work, but do we want to support things
> other than Python? I'll ignore natively compiled (i.e. C) plugins since
> they get icky.
>
> The applications that the OP mentioned, Deskbar, Gedit and Epiphany (and
> Rhythmbox, which is a potential non-Desktop client) use Python, but what
> about other things? Evolution, Banshee et al use Mono-based plugins,
> some other app might use Java plugins, should they be able to use
> NewStuffManager too?
>
Java and Mono plugins should be no problem, because they don't have to be
compiled on the user's platform.
I'm currently working on NewStuffManager integration with Banshee. It
shouldn't be a big deal to get this working.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl