Re: External "so" module.

[Pierre-Louis Bonicoli <pierre-louis bonicoli gmx fr>]

On 10/09/2011 14:41, Hans Breuer wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> At 01.09.2011 22:14, Paul Chavent wrote:
> > Thank you Pierre-Louis.
> >
> > Is there any sample project that provide an external lib (to see how it
> > deals with finding the dia source tree... or is there any way to install
> > dia headers) ?
> Using libdia as SDK (or building Dia plug-ins outside of the tree) is
> not supported. The libdia API/ABI is not considered stable. It is not
> prepared for side-by-side installation. And for advanced plug-ins you
> even need access to app/ provided functionality.
>
> Of course there might be out of tree plug-ins I do not know of.
Hi,

What features/functionality are missing to Dia in order to support
external plug-ins ?
There is already a macro "DIA_PLUGIN_CHECK_INIT" used by plugins:
increasing "DIA_PLUGIN_API_VERSION" when API is modified isn't sufficient ?
Should some functionality provided by app/ moved in lib/ ?

Thanks,

Pierre-Louis