On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:42:08PM -0500, David Hampton wrote: > > The component manager has been around for a long time. The plugin > manager is a completely new implementation for the g2 port. Jan > Peterson started the g2 port and implemented the plugin manager. I > don't know what his reasoning was, but AFAICT the plugin manager is a > graphical/gui thing and the component manager is a engine/notification > thing. (I.E. To get notifications when a account/split/whatever is > created/deleted/modified.) For example (and I'm making this up off the > top of my head thought it may be the real implementation), the stock > commodity editor would use a plugin to install its one menu item, and it > would use a component to detect any stock additions/deletions so it > could immediately update an open display window.
Modules, components, plugins, plugin-pages, and extensions, oh my! Gotta love abstraction. :) -chris _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
