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- * @mainpage plugin API - the access point for texture and sequence
- * plugins
- *
- * @section about About the plugin API
- *
- * This API wraps functions that are used by texture and sequence
- * plugins. They are explicitly wrapped in order to make the
- * dependencies to the rest of the system clear.
- *
- * @section issues Known issues with the plugin API
- *
- * - It can be difficult at times to get access to the API functions
- * linked into the final executable. On gcc, the -fpic and -shared
- * flags take care of this. On Irix, -shared is needed, but you also
- * need a reference to the function to get the handle. This has
- * momentarily been taken care of by pluginapi_force_ref().
- *
- * - Plugins need to define three functions that are needed for
- * version bookkeeping and information. The plugin loading code
- * explicitly checks for these functions. The nanes depend on whether
- * it is a texture or sequence plugin.
- *
- * - The plugin loading occurs in sequence.c and texture.c. The
- * following functions are involved:
- * - open_plugin_seq() (used in readfile.c, editseq.c, sequence.c)
- * - add_plugin_seq() (used in editseq.c, sequence.c)
- * - free_plugin_seq() (used in editseq.c, sequence.c)
- * - open_plugin_tex() (used in texture.c, readfile.c)
- * - add_plugin_tex() (used in texture.c, buttons.c)
- * - free_plugin_tex() (used in texture.c, buttons.c)
- * - test_dlerr() (used in texture.c, sequence.c)
- * Since the plugins are about to phase out, we will not sanitize this
- * code. It will be removed as soon as the replacing system is in
- * place.
- *
- * @section dependencies Dependencies
- *
- * The plugins wraps functions from IMB and BLI. In addition, they
- * define some useful variables.
- * */
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