[GUSDEV] New Plugin::Report

[Jonathan S. <js...@pc...>]

Folks:

Perhaps unbeknownst to most people it is now possible to make read- 
only plugins.  These plugins do not need to be registered to be run.   
The goal of such plugins is to make it easy to maintain plugins that  
access GUS, but do not need to write any data.  They can not submit  
objects so they have some write-protection, but you can still cheat  
and execute SQL that writes or deletes, but *do not do that*.  The ga  
program recognizes that a plugin is read-only when its package name  
matches the template  
<project>::<component>::Plugin::Report::<plugin>, e.g.,  
GUS::Common::Plugin::Report::PluginLister.  (I guess this should be  
renamed ListPlugins to follow the new guidelines.)  I've created a  
few utility read-only plugins and put them under GUS::Common.  Check  
them out.

Thoughts?

Jonathan



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Jonathan Schug            Center for Bioinformatics
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