Plugin project proposal

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:32:22PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:13:14 -0700
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure we know which is likely to be the most common
> > operation.  My guess is actually that we'll have very static
> > interfaces that will accumulate desired changes and then periodically
> > undergo complete revision, which is why I like the vtable approach
> > because it's probably the cleanest for handling that sort of
> > situation.
> 
> Yes, I like the vtable approach because it tells the plugin writer with
> a single look what is the set of functions relevant for you.

And a manpage and/or header file can't do that because...?

Nico
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