From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T04:31:25+09:00
Subject: Re: package management for plug-ins

Just make sure its compatible enough to patch for RPA ;)

--dross

Curt Hibbs wrote:

>Its Me wrote:
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>>Have either gems or ra been designed with an eye on dynamically
>>dealing with
>>plug-ins in an application, a'la Acrobat or Photoshop or Firefox,
>>including
>>dependencies? Install, Enable, Disable, Uninstall, Update seem like needed
>>operations on a plug-in.
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>FreeRIDE's plugin system, FreeBASE, is going to be rewritten to use
>RubyGems.
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>When we first started FreeRIDE, we had planned to use the original RubyGems,
>but it wasn't far enough along, so we had to roll our own format. Now that
>we have an emerging packaging standard, we want FreeRIDE to use that.
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>Curt
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