I'd like to make the Drizzle plugin names uniform. Currently, they're not uniform:
| FilesystemCatalog | Signal Handler | Error_message_stderr | Syslog | connection_id etc. That make its really difficult to systematically query D_D.MODULES and .PLUGINS if you want to know something about a particular module/plugin (and I'm sure people will want to do this eventually, e.g. to see what version of plugin they're using, if a plugin is loaded, etc.). So I propose making all plugin names uniform, matching [a-z_]+. This may only pose a problem for DATA_DICTIONARY-CATALOG_CACHE and friends. If so we can relax the pattern to [a-zA-Z_-]+. Also, instead of FilesystemCatalog (camel case), filesystem_catalog, etc. If other people think this is a good idea, the next question is: DRIZZLE_PLUGIN or DRIZZLE_DECLARE_PLUGIN? Why not use just one? But which one? Hingo said in another thread that DRIZZLE_DECLARE_PLUGIN is newer, but I prefer DRIZZLE_PLUGIN because it's shorter and forces all the plugin's metadata (authors, version, etc.) into its plugin.ini, and since I don't think we can get rid of the plugin.ini, it seems logical to me to centralize metadata in it. -Daniel _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
