[mythtv] Revamping the plugin system.

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Thursday 27 November 2003 01:42 pm, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>There's a piece of the puzzle I left out, the PluginLoader... If you
>>want your plugins in C, it'd be trival to implment a PluginLoader that
>>creates the required interface by using pointers to exported functions,
>>much in the way I currently do it for legacy plugins.  If you want them
>>in some sort of scripting language, then once you've got bindings done,
>>via SWIG or what have you, then create a loader that can load plugins
>>from scripts as well.  The new system doesn't lose any existing
>>functionality or flexibility only adds it.  The discovery of plugins is
>>done by the PluginManager via it's register PluginLoaders.  The
>>PluginManager doesn't care where the plugins come from just that there's
>>a mechanism to get Plugin* from a plugin loader.
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>You're overdesigning things horribly.  Simple is best, always.
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hrm ok...  Glad I got your opinion before trying to submit this stuff 
then.  I'm curious though, if four objects or so that provide a 
constistant estensible frame work for plugins is an overdesign, what's 
your plan for plugins?