<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Jordan:</div><div>I like listening to podcasts while I exercise, and I just listened to a good one on this subject:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">"Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">"Episode 104: Plugin Architectures" dated 7/20/08.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">I don't think it deals with python at all, but it did bring up a number of issues I might not have considered.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">It might be worth a listen.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">-Rob</div></div><br><div><div>On Sep 12, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Dan Krol wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Perhaps this won't end up applying to you, but you should check into<br>Swig and Pyrex. They make interfacing C with Python a lot simpler.<br><br>On 9/12/08, Jordan Sherer <<a href="mailto:jordan@widefido.com">jordan@widefido.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">My understanding is that setuptools includes a simple framework for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">this, which Trac (among other projects) uses for its plugins; I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">tried googling a bit to throw you a link, though, and couldn't find<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">anything really definitive.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for the effort :) That is what I've heard as well, but haven't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">found anything definitive there.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The library I have written so far *has* proved to be somewhat useful<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(although buggy at the moment). I am just wondering if there is an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">existing and/or better way to accomplish this.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If not, maybe I can work on my code a little bit more, extending it,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and then open source it for all. If I go this route, does anybody have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">any suggestions for specific functionality of a plugin framework?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for your help.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jordan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chicago mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Chicago@python.org">Chicago@python.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chicago@python.org">Chicago@python.org</a><br>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>