[TxMt] Feature Request: Load/Unload Plugins while running TM

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Tue Aug 28 18:06:31 UTC 2007


On Aug 28, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

> I don't know whether this is an issue for other users as well and  
> whether it would be possible, but I'd like to have a built-in  
> chance to enable or disable installed plugins (maybe integrated in  
> TM's menu).
> [...]

Removing already loaded plug-ins at run-time is not really possible  
(because loading a bundle can potentially add categories to existing  
classes, will register classes and selectors with the obj-c run-time,  
etc. and graceful cleanup is presently not AFAIK a feature of the obj- 
c run-time).

But I agree that there should be some minimal infrastructure for  
which plug-ins to enable, and potentially some lazy-loading of plug- 
ins, e.g. based on certain events.




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