Re: [gedit-list] Plugin Loader

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Bart Duchesne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A while ago I had a conversation with someone (sorry lost the mails) 
> here on the list about the plugin loader.
> I would like to integrate a ruby plugin loader (besides the python 
> loader) into gedit.

Hi Bart, that guy would probably be me :)

What I said is that currently the python plugin loader is part of the 
core. Our take is that making gedit depend on python, ruby, scheme, 
perl, mono, $COOL_LANGUAGE_OF_THE_DAY would be a bit insane from a 
distribution point of view. Having N interpreters would also cause bloat 
and impact performance.
That said, if someone is interested in making the plugin loader more 
modular and allow third party plugin loaders to be installed separately, 
I would not be opposed by any means. The python plugin would still be 
shipped by default with gedit since python is the defacto standard 
scripting language for gnome and some importants plugins part of gedit 
itself are now written in python. Other loaders could be separately 
installable.

From a technical point of view I have not given much thought on how 
"pluggable plugin loaders" would work, but I think it should be doable. 
Right now we are approaching the 2.14 release and we are focusing on 
bugfixing and polishing. However if you want to work on it we would 
certainly appreciate that and try to give you some feedback on patches 
or proposals. I also think that there are other people interested in 
that area: I know Emmanuele Bassi was interested in a perl plugin loader 
and a guy on irc the other day was playing with the idea of a scheme loader.



Hope that helps,

   Ciao Paolo