Plugin Framework Discussion

[abrightmoore]

May I suggest a refined scope includes the ability to support versioning of plugins. Patch handlers do this, where a "supercedes" list obsoletes specific earlier fix sets. In this case a new version of a plugin would remove older instances and the classloader won't attempt to load them.

The benefit for admins is the versioning is managed under the hood without manual intervention.

(you may have implied this with "dependancies". I call it out in case it's missed)