Re: Writing a new plugin

[Jean Brefort <jean brefort free fr>]

Le mardi 03 août 2021 à 20:19 +0000, non-null--- via gnumeric-list a
écrit :
> On Tuesday, August 3, 2021 6:30 AM, Jean Brefort <
> jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> Le mardi 03 août 2021 à 00:04 +0000, non-null--- via gnumeric-list a
> écrit :
> > On Monday, August 2, 2021 12:20 PM, Morten Welinder
> > <mortenw gnome org> wrote:
> > The best approach at this point is to clone one of the existing
> > plugins. The first question is to ask "what kind of plugin?"
> >
> > Adding functions to Gnumeric?  -- take, for example, fn-math
> >
> > Adding a solver method?  -- take glpk (external program) or nlsolve
> > (internal).
> > Anything else?  samples are getting a bit thin.
> > OK, thanks.
> >
> > How is integration set up for other programming languages (e.g.
> > Python): through the plugin API?
>
> I wrote some years ago a plugin using C++. The code is available at
> http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gchemutils/trunk/gchemutils/gnumeric/
>
> I suppose it should work mostly the same with the D language.
>
> Python is quite a different issue, since a Python plugin needs a
> specific loader.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jean
> Yes, very helpful and thanks.
>
> As for the specific loader for Python, is that in a plugin itself?

Yes, the plugin is python-loader.