Lars Schneider <larsxschneider <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Thanks for this great summary of the problem, Christian! > > I think a generic plugin mechanism would be great but how would we do it? I’m also very glad to see the discussion about coming up with a good pattern for how git can interact with external code. I had also noticed all the in-flight topics as I was searching for a good pattern to adopt. > > We could dynamically load libraries but this would force us to freeze > the ABI as mentioned by Duy: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/298463 > I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss dynamically loaded libraries as there are some distinct advantages over the other patterns especially performance and simplicity. I realize it requires us to version the ABI but there are established patterns to manage this. It also isn’t that much different than us having to freeze or version the protocol for communicating with a remote-helper. ��.n��������+%������w��{.n��������n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�