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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For the Object Properties and Introspection, I think it could be useful to add
not only name/type/value but context/namespace (or equivalent) too.

That could also be possible by using name as “<namespace>.<name>”.

I’m specifically thinking, of how could we separate properties related to different
things. For example, a parametric footprint derived from a footprint generator could
have all it’s “footprint parameters” in the footprint namespace.

* footprint-generator
    - generator: PCB Antenna
    - freq: 2.4GHz
    - A: …
    - B: ….


But, as I was saying, it could equally be:

* footprint-generator.generator: PCB Antenna
* footprint-generator.freq: 2.4GHz
* footprint-generator.A: …
* footprint-generator:B: …




    

> On 05 Feb 2016, at 01:00, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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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