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[J. Donavan Stanley]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>Heh.  When I wrote the original plugin API (thought it can barely be 
>called such), I didn't (and still don't) know anything about any other 
>plugin systems at the source-code level; it was really just a little 
>experiment I did that worked & I decided to submit the patch.  My ego 
>was sufficiently massaged when it was adopted for the add-on modules, 
>and it was subsequently enhanced a little bit, but frankly I'm 
>surprised it's survived this long without someone ripping it out and 
>putting in a "real" plugin API, with a bit more bi-directional 
>communication.  The current implementation is only the barest level 
>above "fork(); exec()" :=)
>  
>


One of the first things I had implemented was a full blown plugin 
system.  Isaac privately rejected it and I came to agree with him. KISS