Re: [sfbol-planning] Extensibility of the engine

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On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Devlyn Davis wrote:

> I've been doing some research on other projects with
> similar goals.  Since I'm not a programmer, I cannot
> comment on the specifics of how to do this stuff, but
> the following seems to be good goals for the
> extensibility of the engine:
> 
> There seems to be three main areas where extensibility
> (customization for a particular game) makes the most
> sense.  Create hooks in the code for:
> 
> Extensibility to the engine itself
> Extensibility via plugins
> Extensibility via dat files
> 

This is an off-the-cuff thought, but I can see a combination of plugins and a config file telling the server which plugins to load, similar to how apache does it, or Quake III.  

> I'm a non-programmer (read: dunce) so I don't know how
> accurate the above assumptions are, but they seem
> logical.

I haven't seen evidence that you're a dunce (yet) ;-)

> 
> -Dev
> 
> 
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