[mythtv] Revamping the plugin system.
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Nov 27 17:56:44 EST 2003
On Thursday 27 November 2003 01:42 pm, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> 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.
You're overdesigning things horribly. Simple is best, always.
Isaac
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