GeneWeb plugins
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Plugins
GeneWeb version 7.1 offers a plugin mechanism allowing functional extensions without impacting the core operation of the system.
Developers should explore existing plugins to infer the overall mechanism, but it should be noted that such development requires a good understanding of both the OCaml language and GeneWeb itself.
Developers will find plugins in the plugins
folder of the GitHub repository.
In the plugins folder, each plugin is in a sub_folder names pl_name_plugin
.
The command make distrib
will compile those plugins and install then in a distribution/plugin
folder.
Ressources (templates, images, lexicon entries) associated with each plugin are located in an assets
sub folder.
Plugins are loaded by gwd
at launch time through the parameter -plugins
(or -unsafe_plugins
) pointing to the location of the plugins.
In addition, the user must specify in his .gwf
parameter file those plugins he wants activated through a line such as:
plugins=pl1,pl2,pl3
where pli
is the name of the desired plugin.