Re: [FR-devel] Plugin dependencies proposal

[Ian MacLean]

Curt Hibbs wrote:

> Rich Kilmer wrote:
>  
>
> > Team,
> >
> > Our current dependency management is being revamped.  The problem that
> > Laurent and I observed last weekend was caused because of the way that
> > the dependencies were being managed...specifically there was a race
> > condition that was intermittent...which sucks.  The other thing I
> > noticed upon analysis is that we send over 2000 notifications between
> > plugins when they are coming up.  This is WAY to many.  We have 29
> > plugins...imagine what will happen when we have one or two hundred...
> >
> >    
Somthing else worth considering is cumulative startup time of plugins. 
As it stands are all plugins loaded at startup ? will startup time grow 
linearly with the number of plugins added ? By way of comparism - in the 
VS.Net plugin architecture absolutely everything is delay loaded so that 
the class browser plugin is loaded only when you ask to see it.  Of 
course with cascading dependencies you may end up loading everything 
anyway - just somthing to consider.

Ian