On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Ales Hvezda <[email protected]> wrote: > > [snip] >>Currently, Scheme is the only available extension language for >>gEDA. However, in future it may be desirable to extend gEDA apps in >>other languages, including possibly as native code loaded from .so >>files. >> > > No objections with the following constraints: > > - All plugins should be "opt-in". > - No enabled plugins by default (to start with; subject to > careful review and discussion); no undiscussed and agreed upon > plugin enabling. > - Any plugins enabled by default (in the future) should not be > used to stealthly circumvent current defaults or behavior. > - It would be really nice to refactor existing scheme functionality > into plugins. > - Plugin mechanism must be portable. > - Initial focus should probably be on scheme-centric plugins; > native plugins can come later. > > -Ales >
Can someone define "plug-in" for me? What is the advantage, given that the whole project is open-source? Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
