From the nimble fingers of Peter Bancroft (peter@...)
(31/10/2001 9:52 AM) came...

> I'll start the ball rolling by saying that I want a plugin to be linked in
> at runtime and work just as if it were part of a fully written app. I need
> this to add behaviours to my app so that I can extend it in a customisable
> way depending upon the exact use that it is put to. It also helps me to
> build and debug reusable modules that could be used somewhere else just by
> plugging them in. How do we do it? Shared libraries? Docs that contain only
> resources?
> 
> What do you think? Is there much interest out there at all for plugins?

If it leads to the festering cauldron of .DLLs that lurk in the nether
reaches of yoer average DOS box, and the wanting of one of which will render
all software defunct, I'd be saying "No thanks".

The worst offender (in the Mac world) I've encountered (and it's a decent
case study) is Agfa Photowise (used to suck the photos out of a little
camera). It laid about 10 little goodies in the System Folder, and cocked up
everything in sight on several G3s here. I have one PB G3 with 8.6 that
tolerates the mess.
-- 
Ted Spencer; ted@...
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