* Torsten Dreyer -- Thursday 25 October 2007: > To make things easier for developers, can we think of a plug-in > system for callbacks so a potential developer write a library > that is linked in dynamically by the flightgear core?
No. That would mean to add and maintain plug-in loader code for all supported platforms, as well as hundreds of lines of documentation, for people who are bright enough - to set up a development environment - to understand enough of fgfs internals to write a module - that follows an interface API specification but are too stupid - to add three lines to a Makefile.am - one line to fg_init.cxx and - one line to main.cxx Such a feature wouldn't make developing one bit easier or faster -- quite on the contrary. And it would lead in no time to Windows/Linux/Mac-*only*, binary *only* addons. Sure, the GPL would prohibit to run such modules with fgfs, and Curt would be happy to sue all infringers (because he has too much time and too much money. :-) This is not where we want to go. (As far as I'm concerned, but I don't speak for the project.) m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
