From: Calvin Yu <cy...@ya...> - 2003-03-13 22:14:39
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I've been thinking that maybe non-plugin jar management should be separate from plugin management. Maybe a solution where the plugins say what jars they need (which they do now), and jEdit downloading them from a central place. Something like what Maven and JJar does. Here are some references. http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jjar Comments? Calvin On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:36:54 -1000 (HST), Don Brown <mr...@tw...> wrote: > Sounds very nice. Do those plans include the ability for a plugin to > include its own jars and export services for other plugins? > > Don > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Slava Pestov wrote: > >> On March 12, 2003 07:12 pm, Don Brown wrote: >> > It's a very interesting architecture, if a bit hard to grasp (or it >> was >> > for me anyways). Of course, it wouldn't be backwards compatible :/ >> >> Which is why I won't be using it in jEdit. However I do plan on >> extending the >> plugin API in a backwards compatible way in 4.2 so that plugins can be >> loaded >> and unloaded on demand; also some info like plugin menus will be cached >> so >> that deferred loading will be possible, so that plugins will be loaded >> when >> first used, not on startup. >> >> It will be backward compatible in the sense that existing plugins will >> still >> be loaded on startup and won't be dynamically loadable; updated plugins >> using >> the improved API will be dynamically loadable. >> -- >> Slava Pestov >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! >> Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and >> the chance of winning an Apple iPod: >> http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------- >> jEdit Developers' List >> jEd...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get > cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of > winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ |