On 2010-01-25, at 20:59 , John C. Welch wrote: > > That's because you missed the point. Plugins are neither evil nor good. They > are a way to get things done. That's all, and they aren't the only way. An > *overreliance* on plugins as the Deus Ex Machina for "any feature I don't > like" is silly, bordering on stupid. The slick "that will be a plugin" reply > to EVERYTHING that isn't a programmer feature, or is an actual IMAP feature > is not a good thing.
We've been there on how plugins are an outlet for undesired features, but a way to implement as many core features as we can. That it forces us to have a pretty decent API and thus facilitates the implementation of other features by 3rd parties sounds to me like a good thing. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
