[vlc-devel] [PATCH] GSoC: lua services discovery, final?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 19:27:51 Fabio Ritrovato, vous avez écrit :
> 2010/1/21 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> > Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 19:03:08 Fabio Ritrovato, vous avez écrit :
> >> In this case, the one you run from the command line will start fine,
> >> but when you click on it in the playlist, it will start again...
> >
> > That's a limitation of the plugins cache foremost.
> 
> I can't see why that's related to the cache, but what should I do
> anyway?

Currently, "services-discovery" (S) is a categorized modules list 
(add_module_list_cat), which means the preference dialog will provide a list 
of known modules. There are three places where you can fix it:

# Turn the option into a plain dumb string and add SD-specific logic to each
UI plugin, using SD probe. This is totally ugly, but relatively easy.

# Extend the modules bank and the plugins cache to support dynamic plugin 
description. This is very difficult and complicated to get right.

# Add a new string configuration item sub-type that hooks into the new probe 
subsystem instead of the modules bank.

> Ignore it and hope nobody will launch a script from the
> command line?

Only developpers do that, who cares? I am more concerned about breaking 
backward compatibility with vlcrc from older VLC versions.

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