James \"Doc\" Livingston wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 13:09 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: >[...] >> How does this relate to python eggs[2]? And if it doesn't, why not? >> It seems to me that if there's an upstream project that handles a lot >> of this, then it would be beneficial to simply re-use it. > > For Python plugins that could work, but do we want to support things > other than Python? I'll ignore natively compiled (i.e. C) plugins since > they get icky. > > The applications that the OP mentioned, Deskbar, Gedit and Epiphany (and > Rhythmbox, which is a potential non-Desktop client) use Python, but what > about other things? Evolution, Banshee et al use Mono-based plugins, > some other app might use Java plugins, should they be able to use > NewStuffManager too? > Java and Mono plugins should be no problem, because they don't have to be compiled on the user's platform. I'm currently working on NewStuffManager integration with Banshee. It shouldn't be a big deal to get this working.
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