On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:32 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:18 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Talking to Tim about plugins on the irc channel it occurred to me, to
> > keep interactive plugins from damaging not interactive program
> > executions we should keep from loading them, at all, ever.
> > 
> > However, we have to load them a bit to inspect what type of plugin they
> > are. What if we put the plugin type in the plugin config file. Scan the
> > config files for the type and ignore the ones which won't work for
> > whatever interface we're using at the time. If we don't find the plugin
> > type defined there then we can fallback to loading the plugin - for
> > compat reasons.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> If it's in the config file, users are going to think they can change it
> and have the change be useful/meaningful... :-/
> 

it will be meaningful. It will mean that their system will break. :)

okay, then failing that we setup a plugins-type directory in /usr/share
that has this info.

-sv


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