Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 22:43:11 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) Message-ID: <199706160543.WAA09681@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jun 1997 01:21:24 EDT." <199706160521.BAA16716@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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>From The Desk Of "Joel N. Weber II" : > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:53:56 -0700 > From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> > > >From The Desk Of "Joel N. Weber II" : > > Isn't it easy enough to include code in E-scape which knows about > > timidy? Won't that solve the problem? > > The answer to that is no . If you like can can view E-scape as > a platform from which you can launch applications as well as > providing basic services. Another way to look at it is to > dynamically reconfigure your package so as to keep the basic > features to a minium . For instance, if I am not into midi > why should I be inflicted by downloading the source code and > recompiling e-scape to exclude the MIDI component. > > If E-scape ever does support plugins, you'll have to download > the Linux and NetBSD and OpenBSD and Hurd and Solaris code > which handles plugins, and I doubt it will ever be useful to > you. I have no idea why are you saying that I will have to download XYZ OS code in order to support "plugins" in fact is not a very smart thing to discuss technical capabilities without knowing the technology. If you are looking for sample code which shows how plugins can be implemented please download amaya from http://www.w3.org and check out how it is done. Don't worry the code does not byte 8) Let me ask you a different question, why are you writing a browser wouldn't you efforts be better spend by way of helping www.w3.org?? Here are a couple of sample projects: 1. go to the next step and write a generic distributed object platform. 2. build a next generation word/spreadsheet processor similar to a browser perhaps fully SGML compliant 3. Since you like GNU stuff how about a Guile mobile agent plugin for netscape. Now thats a real neat project that if you go ahead and implement it you will be king of the hill perhaps even overshadow RMS ! Cheers, Amancio
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