On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:09 AM, Manuel Klimek <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi Doug,
>>> 
>>> any chance I could get this reviewed? I have another feature for the 
>>> compilation database (correctly handling relative directories) that I would 
>>> like to implement in the new structure.
>> 
>> Sorry if I didn't understand something, but is there any real-world use case 
>> where these plugins are needed?
> 
> We implemented it because we have a use case :) For example, we have a
> server-based build system at Google that we want to query, where the
> compilation database implementation depends on internal system
> libraries that we cannot open source (mainly because it's not written
> in a generic enough way). We have developers working in open source
> land, and inside Google land, and we want to have one set of tools
> that "just works".

And Google is not alone in having their own in-house build systems that would 
benefit from such a plugin system. 
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