Plugin tutorial request

[David Faure]

On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:27, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> Many applications these days (too many?, different thread please) have or will
> have a plugin system.  There is this doc:
> 
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/dot/writing-plugins.html
> 
> but it really has to do with writing kpart plugins and not about generic
> plugin systesms. 
Yes

> I have written a few different plugin systems in the past 
> few years, each one different (and better).  And in the same time come across
> several dozen more.  No doubt code is unnecessarily being duplicated all over
> the place and sub optimal or just flat out wrong choices are being made in
> the design of these plugin systems.  It would probably be worth while to put
> together a document describing all of the best practices for creating a
> plugin system. 

This is basically the talk I gave in n7y.
 http://www.blackie.dk/~dfaure/n7y/Trader/index.html

(yes it's called Trader, but it's really "how to add a plugin system to your KDE app")

I don't have time to convert it to HTML and flesh out the explanations,
but if you want to do that... (for the Makefile.am howto I opened the .kpr
with KWord and saved it as HTML - does KOffice rock or what?)

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).