Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: [Gaim-commits] CVS: web/htdocs/summerofcode/piotr/posts dbus-started.txt,NONE,1.1 handles.txt,NONE,1.1

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 7/7/05, Richard Laager <rl...@wi...> wrote:
> I don't know if it's insight, but I vote "plugin that compiles by
> default". That's how gaim-remote is now.

I'm pretty sure I'm in favor of statically linked, and Piotr tends to
agree. Cons to plug-in:
- Other plug-ins can't access DBus stuff except through complicated
Inter-plugin communication. It would be very useful if other plugins
could send/receive messages over DBus.
- How many times have you forgotten to enable the plug-in and then
needed it on an ssh session from elsewhere?

It was *originally* statically compiled, but then was plug-inized. I
believe the rationale for that was core/ui split-related, but I can't
recall it precisely. I'd pretty much say to keep it static unless
someone comes up with a good reason to do otherwise.

-s.