Re: [Evolution-hackers] e-plugin changes

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:30 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:33 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > And finally i've fixed up the loading order issue, now plugin
> > definitions are cached in memory whenever they're loaded, until all
> > the hooks defined in them have been published (via
> > e_plugin_hook_register_type), at which point they are then garbage
> > collected.  This lets code register hooks at any time, rather than
> > having to register them before the plugins are loaded.  Going forward
> > hooks will probably register in their get_type method rather than
> > having to be done in a block like they are in mail-component.c now.
> > 
> > So the shell now loads the plugin definitions, and they are
> > incrementally processed as and when the various components publish
> > their hooks.
> 
> This seems to be failing in the em-format-hook case, it looks like this
> has a specialized method (that creates the hash table for listing the
> mime type handlers) to register the types that doesn't cache the plugins
> for later re-registering.

FWIW I worked around this be registering the format hook after the
formatters in mail-component.c

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.