Load extensions/modules at runtime

[Mauricio Bahamonde]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:12, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> For what it is worth if you check out the audiocd ioslave lame plugin you
> will see exactly that.  The plugin at runtime attempts to load the lame
> library to see if it is on the system.  The code is fugly though and if it
> wasn't for the special circumstances I wouldn't have it like this.  The
> reason being that distributions can now ship with the lame plugin without
> requiring lame. Then if the user adds lame later on the plugin is
> "automagically" enabled.

Yes, this is exactly the approach I would like to see. It's surely a lot more 
work, but in the long term, it would benefit us all :-)

Maybe for KDE 4 we can find out a new way of doing this, maybe with a cleaner 
method/code.

Greetings,

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Mauricio Bahamonde
<elkrammer at kde.cl>

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