[crossfire] Moving server towards a modularized system?

[Miguel Ghobangieno]

How about not modularizing and thus not having to make
a trade off.
How about not screwing up the server for months just
because you are itchting for busy work.


--- Yann Chachkoff <yann.chachkoff at myrealbox.com>
wrote:

> Nothing currently prevents a plugin to modify the
> data it has access to 
> directly - but of course, that's unsafe access, so
> if the plugin makes a bad 
> modification to the data, or forgets to notify the
> server of it if necessary, 
> then it will probably crash the server. Accessing
> data directly or through 
> wrappers is basically a tradeoff between
> performances and security. 
> 
> In the case of modularization of the existing code,
> I'd say that direct access 
> wherever possible should be kept - accessors for
> such data modifications 
> would probably be used only for debugging purposes
> (as a wrapper can check if 
> the data modification is "legal" or not, and thus
> can help detecting a whole 
> range of errors). 
> 
> -- 
> Yann Chachkoff
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