[vdr] Re: VDR Plugin System - First Step

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Klaus Schmidinger (KS) wrote:

KS> Mirko Günther wrote:
KS> >
KS> > why do you load the plugins with the -P Parameter?
KS> > Isn't it better to load all plugins automaticly and only pass the
KS> > Parameter with the -P Option to the plugin?
KS>
KS> I'm not sure what you mean.
KS> Why should VDR load *all* plugins, if the user only wants specific ones?
KS>
KS> If you want to load *all* plugins, you can use the parameter -P*, as in
KS>
KS>   vdr -P'*'
KS>
KS> (note the quotes to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcard).
KS> However, in that case you can't give specific options to individual
KS> plugins.

I didn't read the plugin docs yet, so maybe it's already covered there,
but what about:

vdr -P <plugin1 with individual options> \
    -P <plugin2 with individual options> -P'*'

to pass individual options to plugin1 and plugin2 and to load all other
modules with default options.



c ya
        Sergei
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