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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> Pay a particular attention to the fact plugins can be *now* updated (when the source file has
>> changed), and therefore menus can also be updated.
>> the "PCB_EDIT_FRAME::createActionPluginMenus()" method calls Connect, but Disconnect is never called
>> by destructors.
>> It can create issues when updating scripts, because it could be called more than once.
> 
> If you need to update the menus when a script file changes, you would
> have to connect a wxFileWatcherEvent to the appropriate wxMainFrame
> object to monitor the loaded script file and update the menus
> accordingly.  It can be done but I would proceed with caution here.
> 
Is it really necessary to add a file watcher ? Once python plugins are
loaded, python subsystem run the plugin as it was at start time (As I
understand).
I had perform a little test for that. If you modify a plugin while
pcbnew is running, this is always the "old" version that is running. Not
sure that is true for all OS...
So menu are not supposed to change even if file change.
An other point: if I implement that file watching, I should also
implement a "directory watcher". In case a new plugins is installed
during pcbnew is running ;)
Perhaps an "update button": like onUpdatePythonModulesClick for
footprint plugins ?