On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Furthermore, I think we should draw another bold conclusion: Nobody would > really make full use of a complete document API either. People might > say that they would, but in reality, it would still be simpler just to > hack the LyX code itself.
As a partial counter-example, look at the 'sketch' vector editor, which has quite a few plug-ins already, and it's quite young in software terms. Of course, it was easy for them, sinc the program is mostly written in python. For another counter-example, GIMP. Remember this, too: The hardest bit of exposing an API is factoring your application into commands. Thanks to LFUNs, LyX is already factored! A python interface would just give access to the LFUNs, I expect. People hacking on plug-ins would naturally tend to request new LFUNs, of course, to do that things they wanted to do. Jules
