Re: [gedit-list] Plugin Loader

[Bart Duchesne <bduc dyndaco com>]

Paolo Borelli wrote:

> 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 :)

I thought so but wasn't sure anymore...

> 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.

I completely agree with this view on the subject.

> 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.

I think I will give it a try and see with what I come up with...