Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
- From: Lance Bland <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:42:47 -0400
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 07:00 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
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Do please consider that majority of programmers are lazy beasts who
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don't debug too much. Therefore, but for really simplest tasks, it's
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generally better to use separate processes and communicate with them
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via DO than true plugins.
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If you remember Workspace Manager, you'll know it had a few excellent
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plugin APIs, like the one for generic inspectors, which allowed more
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or less *any* file type to be shown (and even edited) in the Inspector
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window.
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Alas it was true plugin though, and so if you used more such plugins
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Workspace Manager became lazy (for they were not written
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multithreaded) and became unstable (since bugs in plugins took it
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down).
hi-
We had a Workspace Manager Inspector plugin that was a layer over a
D.O. client to a D.O. server that imaged our documents for the
Workspace Manager's Content Inspector. The plugin allowed us to specify
our own client server API and it worked really well.
-lance
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Lance Bland
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