Re: Fwd: Hayes

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 00:16, Neil Stevens wrote:
<snip>
> So now here we are in kde-policies, with a simple question:  Does the
> maintainer of a plugin-based application have veto power over what
> plugins get included in the release?  And does that veto power carry
> over to the kdeaddons package of extra plugins, too?
<snip>

I'd say yes and yes. Plugins can deeply change the internals of 
applications and lead to unstable apps.

As far as plugins distributed with KDE releases are concerned, plugins 
are oftern not very visible, so a badly written plugin will reflect 
back badly on the app (maintainer).

Things are of course different if the plugin is not distributed with 
KDE. In that case, the user normally needs to install the plugin off 
appsy or whatever and thus is well aware of the plugin as an entity of 
it's own, separate from the app.

Marc

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