[KDev4] CVS plugin

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 12.04.07 22:10:55, Andras Mantia wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> And I just disabled it again, sorry. We first need a CMake macro to
>>> check for cvs-existence, so we can conditionally compile cvs plugin.
>> Without looking at the code: does it really need a cmake check? If it 
>> depends on the cvs executable, I doubt we should check for it at 
>> compilation time.
> 
> Yeah, already commented about that. The problem is that CVS will fail
> (silently or loud) when trying to execute an action, because we can't
> check for the executable before loading the plugin.

Can't the plugin init() be made to return success/failure? It seems 
reasonable that other plugins might have runtime dependencies that can 
only be verified by loading (in the dlopen() sense) the plugin and 
asking it if it has what it needs to be useful.

-- 
Matthew
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