On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:33 PM, gharris999 wrote:

>
> If I'm remembering right, the original motivation for the  
> development of
> a plug-in manager was to address the fact that 3rd party plug-ins  
> are a
> major source of instability in the current release branch.  Correct?

Nothing is ever going to solve that problem.  The reason for a new  
plugin manager was to make it easier to package, install, update, and  
uninstall 3rd party plugins.  Think Firefox extensions.

> So, I suppose that, since 5.x and 6.x plug-ins don't work with version
> 7, then a lot of that problem "just goes away" since users can't
> install bad old plug-ins that haven't been rewritten for version 7.

If a plugin was bad in 6.x, chances are it will be just as bad in 7.

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