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<title>Plugins</title>

<para>

Plugins won't change too much when it comes to plugin developers, but

theres a bit that will change in the backend to make better use of the

type system.

</para>

<para>

The obvious changes in <xref linkend="plugin-hierarchy"/> is that

PurplePlugin is now an abstract class and there is a new

PurpleNativePlugin class. These changes have been made to avoid having

to shoehorn the Perl, TCL, and Mono plugins into the C centric

PurplePlugin that we currently have. The PurplePluginLoader's will do

the actual work of translating between the purple C/GObject API and the

language to which the loader is implementing.

</para>

<title>Plugin Object Hierarchy</title>

</figure>

<para>

Theres a noticable size difference in the PurplePlugin shown in

<xref linkend="plugin-class"/>. All of the meta information has been

moved to the new boxed type PurplePluginInfo. The versioning info has

been moved to be loader dependent as well. PurplePluginType is thrown

out since we can the use of interfaces for PurpleProtocolPlugin,

PurplePluginLoader, and so on, are all interfaces and can be checked

by the usual GObject methods.

</para>

<title>Plugin Class</title>

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<title>Plugin Info Struct</title>

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<title>Plugin State Enum</title>

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