Plug-in Architecture

[urbanx]

I think this is an important topic that should deserve some attention in the relatively short term. The sooner some sort of unified plug-in architecture is developed, the sooner that people can develop 3rd party plugins that don't rely on patching the code (which i see as pretty unhealthy).

i don't have a whole bunch of brilliant ideas on this, but here's what comes to mind as i type this:

1. some type of override system that would allow people to insert their own code snippets without modifying the underlying code (and therefore breaking upgrades)
2. something along the lines of what firefox does (i'm not sure of the back end of that, just the front end, but it allows people to write plug-ins/extensions and "install" them
3. something else.

d.

[skaero]

I like this idea! I think someone is working on it, but I like to see this to!

[Prasad007]

I am so full on in support of such a feature.

[simoesp]

it whould be very usefull

[flosoft]

I think if this one is released, alot of plugins will be written

[kfordham281]

I very much like the way wordpress plug-ins are done. I'm not a coder so I don't know much about how they are coded; just how they work from an admin stance. They are super simple to install and manage. Something along the lines of that if possible would go a long way.

[simoesp]

I'm Tumbling Down The Rabbit Hole trying to build the plugins Section because patching the code is a little bad and confunsing... im trying to build the plugin framework and i'll se what i'll come up

Any Ideas Are Welcome

Regards,
Pedro Simões

[simoesp]

Well..... It's Working But It Needs More Developing Ideas And Some Tweaks
http://rapidshare.de/files/25441997/...in.tar.gz.html

[urbanx]

i don't have time to download and explore this right now [stupid work], but i applaud you for taking some initiative on this.

secondly, i think some info would be excellent.... what is your philosophy here? how will admins interact with this system? how will the system interact with the code base? will their be any interaction by users? did you fetch me ice-cream (chocolate mint chip would be wonderful, thanks)?

anyway, i would love to see some discussion of these (and other potentially noteworthy) issues here. that way we can see to it that the plugin system rolls out smoothly and functionally.

d.

[simoesp]

i've splited lots of the webmail code and i had to modify the template engine and the templates to support the dynamic loading of
the taskbar you can watch in my svn server my wip (Work in Progress) hehe

https://si3nc3.ath.cx/svn/trunk