Plugins again.

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:09:11PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     
     (If there's some reason to introduce "plug-ins" into a program,
     then that's another reason to use shared libraries.)


Here's one possible reason:

I was thinking about implementing the GET TRANSLATE command (or adding
the TRANSLATE option to GET), so that  one could import gnumeric files
like this:

GET TRANSLATE  FILE='Book1.gnumeric'
           /TYPE=GNUMERIC.

Parsing gnumeric files would need libxml2 and libz  which aren't
generally needed by PSPP, so perhaps the plugin option would be
justified here.

Then people can write a plugin for any kind of wierd file format.

J'

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