Stef Mientki wrote: > I took a look at Eclipse page you mentioned but after reading the first page > I still don't > understand what you mean (and I never read beyond the first page ;-). > Well, what can I say ... ;)
> With a plugin system, I can think of a complete operating system, > or I can think of something like a DTP, or simply Word, > or I can think of something like Signal WorkBench > etc. > Yes exactly. As I said: Nothing in particular. Just an environment that loads and unloads little bits if functionality, whatever those may be. I think what most people think of when they hear "plugin" is: An Application that can be extended. An RCP provides no more than the next step: No monolithic app, just plugins (which can have plugins themselves (which can have plugins themselves (which ...))). Write a text editor component and use it in your music-sequencer that also monitors your internet-activity, if you must. > I think if you don't express what all of the tasks of that framework will be, > it's not well possible to create one. > > Oh, but it is! Eclipse is such a framework. Pitty is, it's written in Java. ;) > Do you want just launching of applications, or do they have to communicate, > exchange data, launch each other, create together one document or more > general control one process, > and lots of more questions ;-) > Who knows? Thats the beauty of it. Eclipse has been conceived as an IDE/Text-Editor. But now it is just a platform for others to build plugins for. Such as an IDE. There are plans to make an eclipse-based general PIM (called Haystack, I think). The concept is very simple, but for some reason, highly unusual at present. I'm pretty sure that this will change sooner or later. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
