Re: [Exim] Why no plugin architecture for exim?

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Lähettäjä: Neal D. Becker
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Vastaanottaja: Dickenson, Steven
Kopio: exim-users
Aihe: Re: [Exim] Why no plugin architecture for exim?
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 8:28 am, Dickenson, Steven wrote:
> There was a patch a while ago that made the local_scan function dynamically
> loadable. I'm not sure if it's since been included in the base source, but
> the Debian package has it applied.
>
> Beyond local_scan, where do you see a need for a plugin? Just about every
> other aspect of Exim is so easily extensible, using some external resource
> or program is trivial.
>


I added py-exim-localscan to exim-4.30-6.1.src.rpm and rebuilt. Not really
hard, but I don't think it should be necessary to keep doing this. Why not a
plugin architecture so you don't have to patch+rebuild to add exim-localscan,
py-exim-localscan, etc?

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