Re: [patch] plugin build process improvements

[Sergei Golubchik]

Hi, Antony!

On Apr 03, Antony Dovgal wrote:
> On 03.04.2009 17:17, Chad MILLER wrote:
> > Not yet, sorry.  I'm almost certain that there are structures that
> > really should be hidden, but I am not enough conversant in our
> > storage-engine Best Practices to know what should be exposed.
> > 
> > It's funny psycologically, that if you had submitted a patch that
> > included all but one file, I would not be so troubled by it,
> > regardless of its correctness.  But *all* headers, that really
> > bothers me.
> 
> I'd be happy to modify the patch, but I just don't know what (and why)
> you'd like to 'hide'.

Everything. I don't want plugins to touch server internals at all.  What
they should use is the interface to these internals. Alas, it doesn't
exist at the moment :(
 
Regards / Mit vielen Grüßen,
Sergei

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