Dynamic, Lightweight Plugin System

I would really love to get some more eyes looking at this new feature
and get as much feedback as possible.  Anyone willing to test this, add
comments or opinions, etc, would be greatly appreciated.

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http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=8514
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Summary:                    Support a dynamic and lightweight plugin system
Description:
Mantis would certainly benefit from having a pluggable interface for
supporting new features and abilities.  The implementation needs to be
dynamic and lightweight, loading only what is absolutely necessary for a
plugin to work, and without a large amount of overhead to manage and
utilize the plugins.

I have implemented a very simple, but powerful, event-based plugin
system that uses very little overhead for normal operations, and defers
loading files until they are needed.  With no plugins installed, there
is nearly no overhead.

At the moment, the plugin system is in a stable state, looking for
feedback from anyone willing to test the patch and post their thoughts
and reactions.  The patch includes two basic plugins: one is the example
from the wiki page, the other is a debug plugin for assisting with
plugin development.
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  (0016005) jreese (developer) - 2007-10-28 12:57
  http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=8514#16005
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I've attached a new version of the patch that conforms to the new Mantis
version as changed in http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=8063, and
that
uses the new db_query_bound()
introduced by Paul.

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Thank you

-- 
John Reese
LeetCode.net

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