[Opensim-dev] Proposal: Change module interface to indicate replacable modules

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Melanie wrote:
> The intent of this change is to let a module indicate that it wishes 
> it's load to be deferred until all modules have been scanned and 
> initialized, and to indicate that it wishes to ot be initialized if 
> another module has already registered it's interface.
> 
> This will allow automatically disabling modules the developer has 
> marked as "stub" modules without full functionality, so that 
> replacement 3rd party modules can simply be dropped into the binary 
> distribution and get picked up and run instead of that stub.

Could you give an example of what kind of module we'd be talking about here?  Wouldn't this apply to all modules anyway 
(since in principle it should be possible to replace anything)?

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