[Kdenlive-devel] Breaking news

Steinar H. Gunderson sgunderson at bigfoot.com
Thu Dec 5 13:00:57 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 12:57:16PM +0000, Anna Morris wrote:
>> Why not concentrate on a plugin system first?
> Hi, this is def a good idea! I am not a programmer at all, but I know
> how much an API type thing can help people to support a program. Is
> Kdenlive in a fit state for something like this to be achived? Or does
> this re-write need to happen first to get the "core" stable?

Plugin systems make things vastly more complicated, since you need to freeze
APIs and ABIs that used to be internal. If the problem is that Kdenlive is
too hard to develop, trying to make more things into plugins is
counterproductive.

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