On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:25 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On 2/23/07, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
If there is no difference in terms of performance, would this still be bad in your eyes?
If there's no difference in performance AND in access to all the core functions that a tool might need, then I would not object, of course. But then, I would wonder why we are calling this a "plugin" :) Maybe just "standardizing and simplifying the tools API" would be a better description in that case.
Effectively, that would be what would be happening in the first pass. The nice part is that if we did this on top of the extensions system we'll make it easier to add the plugable tools later.
As far as work done, mostly investigation. But, don't let that stop someone from picking it up. Basically it would be making a subclass of the Extension class similar to Input, Output, Effect or Print. Basically defining and simplifying the tools API :)
--Ted