ok,
a civil reply to that flame deserves an apology and a reply. i
agree, it would be nice if there was a way for RB to error out better
on plugins, but it seems like a real problem to implement.
obviously, rb could interrogate a plugin to see if it supports the
current version, which would force developers/users to update their
plugins with every major revision. safer, but i think you'd see an
onslaught of complaints about old supported plugins dying for no
other reason than no one is around to up the const and recompile.
perhaps if this really is a compiler failure in a plugin, rb could
wrap these plugin sections in try blocks and preface the plugin
authors error with a dialog - the following is an error from the
plugin blahblah please contact them for help. i'm not sure if thats
possible architecturally.
otherwise, its back to best practices for the plugin developer - make
sure all your external communications are well branded (prolly not
the sorts name recognition you want, but alas)
mike
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On Jun 2, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
Am 03.06.2006 um 01:30 schrieb Mike Woodworth:
wait... he's supposed to get new versions of his plugins?!?! i
thought this was supposed to be RAD. i propose a installing a
small buzzer in norman and all the other plugin developers
heads... when someone upgrades their copy of RB, the buzzer will
go off... then its up to you norman et al. to contact the user and
send them a new copy.
to use an prior analogy - "i hate this car, it never runs write
when i forget to replace the oil"
I didn't said that a/the new plugin API is a problem. I just said,
that the
error message isn't descriptive and I wondered, why the IDE didn't
posted the
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