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[Edwin Marshall <aspidites@xxxxxxxxx>]

To be honest, after the first attempt at writing a functional plugin system, I haven't touched usf-mod-- until today. Part of the reason was that I wanted to wait until my brain stopped hurting, and the other reason was that I have been active on talk.maemo.org (my phone's OS) helping write a couple of programs for it (aptly and vertsms if you're curious).

I finally decided to do a bit of work on usf-mod today at a second plugin system and wanted to report that I have it working! The only think that doesn't work yet is dynamically importing plugins from a user-defined plugin directory, and some default behavior. I will update the wiki with documentation on how the plugin system works and push my changes early tomorrow morning (heading to work soon), but here's a glimpse:

USF-MOD (short for modified or modular if you are curious) defines plugin mount points, which describe what the plugin can do. For example, I've already implemented a dummy mountpoint called GameMode. Other examples might be items, bots, etc. A user then need only follow the documentation for  these mount points (help(GameMode) or GameMode.__doc__) and subclass them to create a plugin. For example:

class CaptureTheFlag(GameMode):
  name = "Capture the Flag"
  ...

Is a perfectly functional game mode -- albiet useless.

Next I just need to modify config.py to load plugins correctly. (there is a plugin option in the config file which allows a user to choose which plugins are loaded. Later, there should be an in-game option that will allow them to load plugins on-the-fly). 

Keep your eyes open for changes on my gitorious repo.

--Aspidites

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