Plugin project proposal

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:33:18PM -0400, Zhanna Tsitkova wrote:
> Well, it is more about lower level design and may not be necessary in
> the first plugin framework implementation , but one approach comes to
> mind:
> 
> Based on configuration one can build dependency matrix.
> Its rows and columns represent all desired plugin  implementations,
> say, A B C D. Now, if A depends on B the location (A,B) gets the value
> 1, otherwise 0. And so on. The next step is to create a priority
> vector based on this matrix and pass it to the initializer.

What component would build this matrix?  Surely not the application.
That's a non-starter.

Keep things simple please.  That's the point of a plugin framework.  If
you can't keep things simple then give up on the plugin approach.

Nico
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