Re: A question on plugin design

2007-08-08 Thread Grzegorz Słodkowicz
Very insightful, thank you for your replies. I was initially thinking it would be simpler to implement my own system but perhaps using a ready-made one will be more elegant and potential plugin makers would find it more familiar. Cheers, Greg. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: A question on plugin design

2007-08-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
John J. Lee a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: > >> Grzegorz Słodkowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [...] >>> I'd also be grateful for pointers to a well designed Pythonic plugin >>> architecture but I'd much prefer a small project with a simple API. >> Google for setuptools an

Re: A question on plugin design

2007-08-05 Thread John J. Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: > Grzegorz Słodkowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> I'd also be grateful for pointers to a well designed Pythonic plugin >> architecture but I'd much prefer a small project with a simple API. > > Google for setuptools and Python eggs. Search for "e

Re: A question on plugin design

2007-08-05 Thread John J. Lee
Grzegorz Słodkowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I'd also be grateful for pointers to a well designed Pythonic plugin > architecture but I'd much prefer a small project with a simple API. Google for setuptools and Python eggs. Search for "entry point" on the setuptools page. John -- htt

A question on plugin design

2007-08-05 Thread Grzegorz Słodkowicz
I'm working on my little project (an IM client) which I wanted to support plugins. My idea was that the core program would by itself do virtually nothing but manage plugins and all functionality would be provided by the plugins themselves (including protocol handling and UI. My first attempt wa