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[Ary Borenszweig]

Bruno Medeiros a écrit :
> Frank Benoit wrote:
>> Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
>>
>>> How can one implement plugins in D?
>>
>> In theory this can be made with a DDL like mechanism.
>> IMO in the first run, it can be ignored and you just compile the 
>> configuration you want.
>> A dummy OSGi/Equinox API could be used, so the code is still compatible.
>>
> 
> Yeah, I was thinking the same. A dummy OSGi which only supported static 
> configurations (ie, no runtime loading/unloading) would probably be the 
> best way, both because a full functional OSGi framework would not be the 
> most important functionality of the Eclipse platform to have first, and 
> because it doesn't seem DDL is mature enough for this task.
> 

The problem with that approach is that there are a lot of things in 
Eclipse that you might or might not use depending on what you do or not 
in a session. Eclipse loads *a lot* of things lazily, and tries to 
populate the UI using as much stuff from the plugin.xml files as 
possible. If you don't make that lazy, then Declipse will probably be as 
slow as Eclipse, or worse.