Jade Lovelace
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Plugins are already allowed to fail to load, let's be even more tolerant of them failing to load by ignoring inaccessible ones with a warning. This change also significantly reworks the docs for plugins. This is a tiny extremely partial backport of the C API at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8699. Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/740 CC: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/359 Change-Id: If4ee20c3daaf26c8184a415eef3e20ca5b5e7aef
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synopsis: "Add `nix_plugin_entry` entry point for plugins"
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issues: [fj#740, fj#359]
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prs: [gh#8699]
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cls: [2826]
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category: Development
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credits: ["jade", "yorickvp"]
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Plugins are an exceptionally rarely used feature in Lix, but they are important as a prototyping tool for code destined for Lix itself, and we want to keep supporting them as a low-maintenance-cost feature.
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As part of the overall move towards getting rid of static initializers for stability and predictability reasons, we added an explicit `nix_plugin_entry` function like CppNix has, which is called immediately after plugin load, if present.
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This makes control flow more explicit and allows for easily registering things that have had their static initializer registration classes removed.
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