Plugin System
I plan to start working on a merge request soon to add support for Mousepad to load plugins using libpeas. I was waiting on !30 (merged) to land since it would've caused a lot of conflicts. I'm opening this issue to solicit feedback and see if anyone is opposed before I spend much time on it.
It would use libpeas for the loading of plugins and Gobject-Introspection for generating the bindings for non-C languages. It would involve moving most of Mousepad's code into a shared library that is used by a simple main() program.
Advantages:
- Plugins!
Disadvantages:
- Increased dependencies (libpeas plus anything its loaders depend on)
- At some point we would probably want to start promising a stable API so it would make it a little harder to make changes to parts of the headers/API that would be exposed to plugins.
Related: !2 (closed)