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

[Kyle Hamilton]

money.

-Kyle H

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Justin
Clark-Casey<jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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