[vlc-devel] Re: rfc: loadable modules from libvlc

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 8 janvier 2007 13:51, filippo at carone.org a écrit :
> Hi everybody,
>  i'd like to know if it is ok for you to have functions in libvlc to
> load a vlc plugins at runtime, ie after vlc bootstrap, to be released
> with vlc version 0.9.0:

Version 0.9.0 breaks the API and the ABI in almost every possible ways. 
If you (or anyone else) wants to modify something, the time is right :) 
That being said, adding new APIs does not normally break backward 
compatibility, so it does not matter.

> /*
>  * path The complete path to .so plugin file
>  */
> void libvlc_core_load_module( const char* path, libvlc_exception_t
> *p_e )
> void libvlc_core_unload_module( char* plugin_name, 
                                  ^^^^
                              const char* ?
> libvlc_exception_t *p_e )

If I understand correctly, you want to load a file rather than a plugin 
name. Could be useful, but please avoid heavy duplication with 
module_Need et al (you may want to factorize some code).

Are you sure you are not going to have some severe problems with the 
plugin cache, in particular if the plugin adds some configuration 
parameters?

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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