Great idea!
Ziba Scott, 09.03.03 23:39:
Hi Roundcube Plugin API Devs,
I wanted to float a concept out there for feedback: Core plugins.
Hopefully I haven't missed a discussion about it elsewhere.
A core plugin would be a plugin which is required for roundcube to
function or must at least be replaced by a non-core plugin which serves
the same function. This is something Drupal has implemented with (in my
opinion) great success.
I believe there would be several benefits to implementing some core,
required elements of roundcube using the plugin api:
* The plugin api is assured to become potent and robust as it's heavily
depended on
* There almost no learning gap between developing/maintaining a plugin
and a core feature.
* This would eliminate the need for code which reads:
"check for a plugin to do this, otherwise do it the regular way"
* The non-plugin code base becomes smaller and more focused
I'm not proposing there be a concerted effort to re-factor everything as
plugins but making some core plugins could open doors.
In a test branch we plugin-ized a few core things and liked what we saw:
IMAP Caching:
We replaced all the imap caching calls with plugin hook calls. Then it
was easy to implement memcache caching instead of sql caching.
Temporary File Handling:
We replaced all the read/write attachments to disk calls with plugin
calls and wrote two plugins: Filesystem, to handle attachments just as
before and Database to handle attachments in a multi-server friendly
way. Memcache would be another option.
Contacts:
We added a few hooks, re-factored rcube_contacts.php and rcube_ldap.php
into plugins, and then made a horde contacts plugin.
What do you all think?
Thanks,
Ziba
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