[opensource-dev] Third Party Plug-ins?

[malachi]

i for one particularly love this idea. i think there should be a way for  
the default LL issued viewer to be a plain jane for every user client. but  
allow third party devs to create plugins that do whatever they want. the  
idea of the radar and ao are amazing. but dont stop there. there are tons  
of things that average users DO NOT use in the client already. LL could  
simply remove those items and offer them as plugins. i am for this idea of  
modularity 100%. my only question is where do we start?

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:57:16 -0400, miss c <miss_c_27 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Would it be a plausible feature in the future to have the code accept  
> third
> party plug-ins instead of creating whole new viewers?  Then have a Third  
> party
> directory approved plug-in list.  As I mentioned before, my husband is  
> making an
> external installer for people that may have difficulty installing skins  
> into the
> new viewer, this will be a directory that all skin designers can add  
> their skins
> to.  Wouldn't it be better to have a RLV plug in or an AO plug in, or a  
> radar
> plugin that displays distance, then have to add all that to each  
> viewer?  I do
> realize that there may be some things that Linden Lab might not want to  
> add to
> their code but if its switched to a plug in system, people can pick and  
> choose
> which additional features they prefer without having whats considered  
> competing
> iewers.
>
> TY
>
> Miss
>
>
>


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