[vdr] Re: VDR Plugin System - First Step

["Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:59:53 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>> >> why do you load the plugins with the -P Parameter?
>> >> Isn't it better to load all plugins automaticly and only pass the
>> >> Parameter with the -P Option to the plugin?
>> >I'm not sure what you mean.
>> >Why should VDR load *all* plugins, if the user only wants specific ones?
>> >If you want to load *all* plugins, you can use the parameter -P*, as in
>> What about defining the plugins to load in the setup menu?
>> eg. all plugins the user needs/wants are in a "plugin"-directory and
>> then he/she can select what to use. This is IMHO the better way to
>> handle plugins for different users when a multiuser-vdr is available...
>That would make it hard to provide command line options to individual
>plugins.
Maybe one can provide these options in the plugin specific menu then,
so each plugin will get an own setup menu