Plugin tutorial request
Jesper K. Pedersen
blackie at kde.org
Fri Feb 20 20:41:18 GMT 2004
Your prayers have been hurt, by pure accident I've planned this weekend
(where my girlfriend is not home) to write exactly such a howto.
However, wants to read initial version please mail me in a private mail.
Cheers
Jesper.
Benjamin Meyer <ben at meyerhome.net> writes:
| 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. 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. What modules in KDE that already exist that developers can
| take advantage of, how to manage versioning, the build system, etc. I know
| that many KDE developers have worked on plugin systems before and would
| probably be able to add in a good point or two. This way the same lessons
| don't have to be relearned
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