[sldev] Re: Plugin architecture

[Mike Monkowski]

Tateru Nino wrote:
> The plugin subsystem in turn can generate messages to be injected 
> asynchronously back into the viewer, either to trigger the viewer itself 
> to take an action (make your own list of local actions and expand as 
> necessary)...

This is what got me confused in the first place because the "list of 
local actions" would probably have to be expanded to include every 
method in the code base.  And then you may as well just write your 
function as part of the code base.

If the goal is to be able to write routines that do not need to be 
compiled into the code base, then it should probably be done by 
expanding the functionality of LSL scripts.

If the goal is just to keep the executable file size small (does anybody 
really care?), then that might be achieved by compiling in a stub that 
provides direct access to needed data and methods and dynamically links 
in a library containing the bulk of the functionality if the function is 
an entry in a customizable user's menu.

So what is the reason for having plugins anyway?

Mike