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Losses at Mandriva

Posted Dec 3, 2008 9:43 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)
In reply to: Losses at Mandriva by avik
Parent article: Losses at Mandriva

What do you do if the application doesn't use a plugin architecture? Do you boycott it until they rewrite things so that a single binary can fit all situations?

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Losses at Mandriva

Posted Dec 4, 2008 15:20 UTC (Thu) by avik (subscriber, #704) [Link]

You work with upstream to add a plugin architecture. In the same way, if there's a bug, you fix it upstream to avoid duplication of effort.

Losses at Mandriva

Posted Dec 5, 2008 0:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

And if upstream says 'plugins? No way!' or is just impossible to work
with? (This is not academic: I can name several such projects, some of
critical importance, alas)...