[vdr] Re: VDR Plugin System - First Step

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Sergei Haller wrote:
> 
> 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,

Well, well, ...

> 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.

That may be possible.

But let's first actually *implement* plugins before dealing with
such less matters...

Klaus
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