On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:37, Dave Malcolm wrote: > 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. > Exactly. My application embeds various scripting languages but has a default simple to use one geared towards my app. This could be implemented using the same plugin system but is provided by the program rather then a plugin. We could add in the api a function to statically add/remove a gluein. > > [snip] -- Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>
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