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Re: unloading plugin bundles - is it a bad idea?
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Re: unloading plugin bundles - is it a bad idea?


  • Subject: Re: unloading plugin bundles - is it a bad idea?
  • From: Bastian Schnuerle <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:39:01 +0100

hi ross,

i never unload the executable bundle, i think the host does that (if the application is terminated?).

the only thing that is called in my plug-ins and only for old carbon style plugins is CFBundleCloseBundleResourceMap, for Cooca nothing is called if the instance of the plug-in gets destroyed and my plug-ins have never crashed in that moment.

cheers,
bastian


Am 03.11.2012 um 08:07 schrieb Ross Bencina:

Hello All,

Does anyone know whether it is usual and advisable for a plugin host to unload a plugin's executable bundle after all plugin instances are destroyed? In this case plugins include AudioUnit plugins and VST plugins.

I had been unloading the bundle with CFBundleUnloadExecutable when the host was finished with the plugin. However I just came across a plugin that crashes when I unload the bundle.

Then I found this thread on Carbon-dev where Chris Hanson says:

> In general, on Mac OS X one should consider bundle/plug-in unloading
> impossible; one cannot guarantee correctness even if the bundle
> itself does everything "right," because any underlying framework used
> by the bundle may not support unloading.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2011/Feb/msg00023.html

So I would like to know whether Mac OS X plugin hosts generally don't unload plugin bundles.

Thank you,

Ross.
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