Re: [Sodipodi-list] plugin configuration

[Lauris K. <la...@xi...>]

Hello!

This approach has problems too - say one has hundreds of plugin .so
files. And there is <xyzfoo> tag in document file. Just to discover,
which plugin handles that tag, program has to load/query them all.

Also, the more information is contained in plugin itself, the harder
the backward-compatibility issues will be. I have not touched
plugins partially the reason, I want the document etc. structure
to clear up as much as possible beforhand.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski

On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 15:46, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
> 
> 
> >Doing shape plugin is relatively easy - just have objects.xml
> >file somewhere, with entry:
> ><objecttype name="star" handler="libsodipodistar.so"/>
> 
> Ive often found, that for plugins, its nicer to have them totally
> self contained. Instead, have the .so file specify what objecttypes
> it supports- perhaps a global function:
> 
> const char *plugin_get_object_type_name(void);
> 
> scan the directory(s), and anytime a new plugin or updated filetime is
> noticed- then try to (re)load the plugin. also nice to allow users to
> have personal plugins in ~/.sodipodi/plugins.
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> P.S. about my post about "fill-rule": the spec actually says that
> "fill-rule:nonzero;" is the default, I was incorrect. The question
> about support for the sytle still makes a bit of sense. ( Raster algs
> are a hobby of mine) Once I finish dling gnome 1.4, Ill probably try
> to get the rendering code from cvs, but if anyone knows offhand
> how hard/easy might be to choose filling modes....
> 
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