Re: check sum (Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Okay... so why can't I edit a patch with this?)

[Rib R. <ri...@gm...>]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:18:11 -0800, Joe Emenaker <jo...@em...> wrote:
> Bill Zwicky wrote:
> > Does anyone actually *have* the problem you're solving?
> 
> Well, I think the XML driver will. It's going to need (or want) to be
> able to choose checksum methods with a text string.

The XML driver is able to choose checksum methods with a string. It
uses PluginRegistry to locate plugins (which currently must be written
in Groovy) inside the org.jsynthlib.plugins package and also in user
specified directories.
I suppose it would be possible to require these plugins to work with
Patch, but I don't really see the point.  My personal opinion is that
we leave current drivers as they are, and work to make the XML driver
provide a cleaner interface for new drivers.

Working towards this goal, I've converted EditorBuilder to be able to
read parameters from an XML driver and to export XML instead of Java
code.  I've almost finished the parser. Once it (the parser) is done
the XML driver should be ready for simple single editors. Then we need
to start using it so we can improve it. (For example, I think Decoders
need to be extended to allow for cases where multiple parameters are
decoded at once.)