Plugins should be objects

There should be a base class for plugins, which other plugins then inherit from.

Benefits:

• A plugin would only override the methods it needed to.
• The current ugliness of cloning EmptyPlugin and hacking out 90% of it would be gone
• Plugins could inherit from other plugins, adding new functionality
• Fewer globals

-- Contributors: MeredithLesly

Discussion

Several people agree with you. See PluginOOApi for a way to implement this in a "backward compatible" way. The patch is against Cairo, and some of the changes made in Dakar allows for a more elegant and cleaner implementation.

-- RafaelAlvarez - 24 Mar 2006