RE: [FR-devel] Problem with RUNNING state

[Rich Kilmer]

Its done ;-)

I will check it in now.

-rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:freeride-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Laurent Julliard
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:23 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [FR-devel] Problem with RUNNING state
> 
> Rich Kilmer wrote:
> [...snip good stuff...]
> >
> > In this example, the subsystem tag <subsystem name="GuiCore"> is
just a
> > holder of multiple <plugin> tags.  When core.rb parses this file it
> > merely iterates over the contained <plugin> tags and creates them.
The
> > subsystem is not represented in the running FreeBASE system and the
name
> > is ignored.  What I propose is that when the core.rb file reads in
an
> > xml file that contains a <subsystem name="..."> tag it creates a
plugin
> > (just like the <plugin> tag does) that is named as specified
(GuiCore)
> > and has a dependency of all the plugins within it.  It would be like
> > doing this:
> >
> >   <plugin name="GuiCore" version="1.0" autoload="true">
> >     <module>FreeBASE::SubsystemPlugin</module>
> >     <dependency state="LOADED" action="start">
> >       <when plugin="GuiSetup" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
> >       <when plugin="AppFrames" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
> >       <when plugin="MenuBars" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
> >       <when plugin="MenuPanes" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
> >       <when plugin="EditPanes" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
> >     </dependency>
> >   </plugin>
> >
> > This would allow something that depends on this entire subsystem to
be
> > dependant on it instead of its components.
> >
> >   <plugin name="FooPlugin" version="1.0" autoload="true">
> >     <require>...</require>
> >     <module>...</module>
> >     <dependency state="LOADED" action="start">
> >       <when plugin="GuiCore" version="*" state="RUNNING"/>
> >     </dependency>
> >   </plugin>
> >
> > Does this make sense?
> 
> Yes it does. Your previous message confused me because I thought what
> you were describing was already feasible with the current core.rb
> implementation.
> 
> Do you think you'll have time to modify core.rb to integrate this new
> feature soon?
> 
> Laurent
> 
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