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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think this was originally meant to be a generic plugin object and
plugin manager to be used as a base classes.  I believe it was something
I discussed with Tom a while back.  It may or may not still be useful.
I would be willing to bet most plugin managers and plugins have to do a
lot of the same basic tasks for loading and unloading the plugins which
could be unified in well designed base classes.  It's the next level up
that defines the actual plugin and plugin manager functionality.   I
agree with your assessment that a do it all plugin manager would be a
bad idea.

On 2/4/2016 4:18 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> For the section Dynamic Library Plugin, what is described would
> not be a reasonable implementation.  We cannot have a "do it all"
> plugin - that would result in unnecessary complexity and also couple
> code which should not be coupled. Perhaps we need a more refined
> description of what people would like to do with these plugins?
> 
> I have already created a simple plugin framework and a 3D Plugin
> class which is responsible for loading and creating rendering data
> for the 3D viewer. Next on my list is to develop a PCB Plugin which
> can perform I/O on a BOARD class - this involves creating a
> PCB Plugin API and a pcbnew API. The pcbnew API can be used 
> for just about anything - re-implement Python scripting interface,
> implement various MCAD/ECAD Import/Export etc.
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I committed the release 5 road map yesterday and the developers
>     documentation[1] on the KiCad website has be updated.  Please take a
>     look at it when you get a chance and let me know if you find anything I
>     missed that we discussed for the current development cycle or if you
>     find any errors.  It's pretty ambitious already so I don't know if we
>     should be adding too much to it.  If you find something in there that
>     interests you and you're willing to work on itplease let the dev team
>     know so we are not all working on the same thing.  As of right now, I've
>     assigned myself the schematic object refactor (in progress), I/O
>     manager, and new schematic and component library file formats tasks.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     [1]
>     http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/v5_road_map.html
> 
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