/soc/2013/ankitkv/gobjectification: 20188870cc4b: Bump the GPlug...

[Eion Robb]

So if plugin types are dropped, will prpl's just have to create a concrete
extension of the PurplePluginProtocolInfo abstract class instead?


On 3 August 2013 12:09, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:

> On 08/02/2013 04:41 AM, Ankit Vani wrote:
> > Also, I would like to note that there will be no such thing as a 'prpl'
> in the
> > new API. Plugins do not necessarily have to belong to any of the old
> types such
> > as 'protocol', 'loader', 'standard' etc. I haven't started working on the
> > protocol API yet (for now PurplePluginProtocolInfo in itself represents a
> > protocol), but plugins will be able to register and unregister protocols
> and do
> > other things too if necessary. Whether this is a good idea or not for a
> plugin,
> > it made sense to remove this restriction. :)
> >
> > Ankit
>
> If the distinction between plugin types is removed, I don't see a reason to
> allow disabling plugins.  I know this may complicate matters for Adium, who
> disable plugins and build static prpls, but special-casing a few plugins
> in the
> configure script seems pointless if there's no artificial distinction
> between a
> regular plugin and a prpl.
>
> John
>
>
>
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