Re: Plugin System

[Dave Malcolm <david davemalcolm demon co uk>]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:23, Bob Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:40, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 03:41, Bob Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > >     need to do this at start up.  To date we've made the simplifying
> > > 
> > > Thats something that needs to be addressed. Although, you could make the
> > > argument that you too are discovering the plugins on startup. You just
> > > only have one way of doing that. 
> > > 
> 
> Jody and I spent a significant amount of time figuring out a common set
> of terms so we could describe what we need. Some of this email covers
> that. I don't know if your following paragraph asks me about a loader or
> a discoverer. Multiple discovery types would allow for things like
> storing the list of plugins on a server or storing plugin metadata in a
> .net dll.

You could even have what I like to call "glue-ins":  code that acts like
a plugin but which is statically linked into the main executable.


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David Malcolm
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