From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 14:37:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12716 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (root@cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12710 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apple.statsci.com (apple [206.63.206.4]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with SMTP id OAA00904; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:35:52 -0700 Received: from apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by apple.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0weSON-0006uQC; Wed, 18 Jun 97 14:35 PDT Message-Id: To: "Joel N. Weber II" cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) References: <199706160701.DAA17792@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jun 1997 03:01:47 -0400." <199706160701.DAA17792@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:35:50 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > No, plugins let the user extend the functionality of their software > without having to have the source, or the resources to build it. > > I fail to see where either of these would be huge advantages. One main advantage that I see is that it saves YOUR time. You wouldn't have to get bugged with maintaining the extension or with requests that you add an extension for a particular type of thing. It also lets me (as an end user at my site) extend the functionality of the software (by downloading & installing a plugin into my home directory) without having to go bug our (perpetually overloaded) IS staff to download, build and install an extension into the [presumably] site-wide software distribution just to support my specific needs du jour. It's just a lot less work for me to grab a file and stick it somewhere I have access to than it is to go persuade someone else to grab the extension, integrate it into the software's build tree, compile it and install it, then worry about problems introduced because of the global change. > I'm also realizing that I need to come up with an adaquate framework > in my code for these random pieces. And...at least one of those random pieces could be a "plugin extension" that someone else writes because they found it useful...:-)) > There is more to life than HTML and images :-) Really??? No way! Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org