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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2019-03-11 17:46, schrieb Brian:
> -- Registry mechanism
>
> This one's a bit more involved and I welcome comment and discussion.
>
> Refer to eeschema/sch_io_plugin_registry.h/cpp.
>
> A new class called SCH_IO_PLUGIN_REGISTRY is a singleton which
> maintains a few indices of plugins.  In order to register plugins,
> each plugin class now exposes a static method called "create" which
> returns the base type SCH_PLUGIN *.  A pointer to this static method
> is provided to one of a few helper classes which lead to index entries
> created for the file extension and a string name.

More comments later but a quick question:

Why make new plugin registry that is different from the plugin registry 
that is used in pcbnew?  And if we do need a new version for schematic 
type plugins, can we unify them to avoid having to debug/maintain two 
different code bases that serve approximately the same purpose?  For 
reference, I am referring to pcbnew/io_mgr.cpp

-S