On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 07:45:44PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> On 04.05.2011 14:26, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> >On 04/05/2011 00:50, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
> >>Hi everyone,
> >>As a typical start of a new release cycle I want to poll
> >>- what features are a must in the next release;
> >
> >Features:
> >* Git based Embedded LyX.
>
> Couldn't we "somehow" re-use QtCreators plugins? They have
> a nice plugin-system. Looks a bit inspired by OSGi. Maybe
> Andre is willed and allowed to talk about it.
I can certainly talk about it, and it would be hard to hide
anything anyway. It's Open Source after all ;-}
I think it is conceptually possible to re-use the plugin loader
(just a few hundred lines of code after all), but I would not
recommend it in general, and certainly not for LyX, mainly for
two reason:
- LyX architecture is still a bit unusual, insofar as the
core drives the gui, not the other way round, so it does
not fit too well into "alien" MVC setups.
- I don't think there is any need to split LyX into plugins.
"Reusing" the git plugin code on a conceptual level might be in
possible in theory, but given that the implementation only calls
the command line tool, I am fairly sure there won't be much more
practical "reuse" than the lines containing the opening and
closing braces of function bodies in the end ;-}
Sorry to spoil the fun here.
Andre'
