Plugin tutorial request

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

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