new plugin events

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 14:00, Basile STARYNKEVITCH
> <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> 
>> I really insist that the position "events are only accepted if there exist a
>> mature & running plugin needing them" is not sustainable.
> 
> No.  We are not communicating here.  The relative maturity of the
> plugin that needs it is not relevant.  Just that there is some plugin
> that could take advantage of it.
> 
> If ICI and/or MELT and/or Dehydra and/or whatever other plugin people
> are developing need new plugin events, then by all means lets add
> them!


Then I believe that me Basile & Diego have the same position, while Richard Guenther did express an incompatibly 
different position in the past (or perhaps I Basile misunderstood what he Richard meant by theory).

So I understood that people could propose new plugin events, provided that they are not too costly to implement (mostly 
meaning that the invoke_register_plugins calling them does not slow down compilations not using plugins), and provided 
people can explain clearly why they need it. It is not necessary to have a useful plugin coded & runnable to show the 
need of the event.

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards.

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