Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:30:46 +0200
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:42 , Lance Bland wrote:
If you remember Workspace Manager, you'll know it had a few excellent
plugin APIs, like the one for generic inspectors, which allowed more or
less *any* file type to be shown (and even edited) in the Inspector
window.
Alas it was true plugin though, and so if you used more such plugins
Workspace Manager became lazy (for they were not written multithreaded)
and became unstable (since bugs in plugins took it down).
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.
Sure. What I advocate though is a plugin architecture which would make
this easy (and an in-thread plain plugin difficult). With Workspace
Manager the opposite was true, and thus you were a bright exception: vast
majority of programmers did not bother, with the obvious results.
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Ondra Cada
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