interfaces / implementations separation (was Let's discuss KDevelop4 interfaces and shell)

[Alexander Dymo]

On Friday 19 January 2007 20:41, Matt Rogers wrote:
> You didn't need to do that in general, but specifically for the three
> classes that you singled out in your proposal. It wasn't until Jens
> mentioned the link time advantages that it became apparent to me what
> having a
> PluginController interface gives us.

I still think link time is a neat side-effect of plugins vs shell
independence. For each thing that is useful in plugins there has to
be an interface. And plugin controller happens to be one of such things.