> There is a tension between the two approaches: either you want > "auto-discovery", or you want a system with explicit registration and > only the registered plugins would be visible to the system.
I think both are necessary. A discovery API should be available, but the library or application should be free to do whatever it wants with the discovered plugins - enable them automatically, present them to the user, or nothing. (a GUI application, for example, needs to be able to display a list of available plugins, with checkboxes to enable or disable each of them. It is not reasonable to expect the user to type the plugin name in a textbox) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
