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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 09/16/2013 09:21 AM, Miguel Angel wrote:
> I have drafted a blueprint, on how we could implement a pluggable IO
> modules.
>
> _https://blueprints.launchpad.net/kicad/+spec/pluggable-file-io_
>
> If you have a moment, please give it a read, and comment on this thread
> or edit over the draft if you feel something is plain wrong.

Hi Miguel,

Looks good, I have two minor suggestions:

1. I wouldn't use any ID values that have to be pre-defined, there's a 
risk of conflict. IMHO it's simpler and more error proof to index 
plugins by names (something like pcbnew.io.eagle, etc.)

2. Register all plugins globally in some sort of PLUGIN_MANAGER class, 
that takes care of enumerating and allocating/freeing the DLLs and 
querying plugins with a given interface. The IO_MGR in pcbnew will only 
request PCB I/O plugins, some equivalent of it in eeschema will deal 
with schematics, etc.

Cheers,
Tom

> Dick, I really appreciate your comments & ideas, as you are the IO_MGR &
> PLUGIN classes author (high % at least)
>
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