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Daniel Quinlan writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes:
> 
> > ... that makes the new plugin API sound quite a bit less useful ;)
> > what's it being added for?
> 
> ReplaceTags.
> 
> I hope to eventually clean up the internals and make it okay after 3.1,
> but it's just a bit too hairy right now to feel okay about making the
> API usable for random third-party plugins (it's fine as long as the
> integrator checks compatibility).

yeah, I was hoping for the "pass rule code for rules with certain tflags
into the plugin for substitution" approach as I mentioned before -- that
doesn't require the plugin to delve into the Conf structure to do it.

> The API is still generally useful if you have *anything* to do at end of
> parsing (for example, tying a DB as in accessdb), stuff that doesn't
> involve internal APIs.

ah, that's a good point.  that hadn't occurred to me...

- --j.
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