Design a plugin interface including scripting support

[diederik]

We want to add plugins to KMess, and add scripting support.

Tasks:

• Make a scenario what we like to make scriptable, examples:
  •  http://www.msgpluslive.nl/scripts/
  •  http://live.msgdiscovery.com/
  • the Kopete plugin API
• create a stable API wrapper. (for the networking part: the public functions of the to-be-written library)
• add plugin support
• make those scriptable through kross or qtscript.

it turns out that kross is easy to implement, each Q_OBJECT can be used in scripts without any changes.

[valerio]

 Click to search for plugin tickets ;)

[sjors]

 Reference

[sjors]

In progress. r5022 adds a script console, r5078 adds PluginsMaster which actually executes scripts using the QtScript engine, r5100 exposes the first interface, KMessInfo.

More information on the interfaces  here. Discussion on the interfaces and other related things,  here.

[valerio]

Take a look at our fellow Daniel Moctezuma's Google Summer Of Code effort to write a neat plugin system:

 http://gitorious.org/~democtezuma/kmess/democtezuma-kmess

[dmoctezuma]

The Plugin System is already merged in the master branch on Gitorious. See [1] for details.

[1]: http://www.gitorious.org/kmess/kmess/commit/1355ba446f8406094dbd89a414b12a1633fc85a3