Re: [FR-devel] Updated code for the core, plugins, etc

[Laurent Julliard]

Rich Kilmer wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I updated the core and made extensive changes to the Plugin class to manage
> dependencies based on a state transition mechanism. See NEWS file for list
> of stuff.
>
> A typical plugin.xml file is now:
>
> <plugin name="Test1_Plugin" version="1.0" autostart="true>
>  ...config stuff...
>  <dependency state="LOADED" action="start">
>   <plugin name="Test2_Plugin" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
>  </dependency>
> <plugin>
>
> I will update how all this works on the Wiki at:
>
> http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DevDoc/FreeRIDE_Core
>
> In the Plugin Lifecycle section.
>
> I hope this meets everyones needs for dependency management ;-)


Rich,

Congrats for all this nice rework and feature enhancement. I think we 
really needed a depency mechanism for plugins loading and it looks like 
we have it now!

Unless you or other developers on this ML have urgent modifications to 
commit I suggest that I freeze the 0.0.4 release by the middle of next 
week. This gives all of us a bit of time to shake your code a bit and 
see if there are any major bugs in it. Then I'll cvs tag, export the 
source files, zip them and deliver through the Savannah File Release Space.

We could also publish an annoucement on ruby-talk (of course with a big 
warning saying that this is really VERY alpha code and people should not 
expect a working IDE)

Comments?


Laurent