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On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:23:15 +0100
Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
>  ..... plugins do not track advances of the main source. So 
> they bit-rot and tend to "go away".

That's only true when the plugins are of bad quality and are abandoned
by the plugin's author.

In this case, having it "go away" is probably preferable compared to
contaminating the core code.

A lot of it depends how plugins are used.  In Gnucap, certain things
must be plugins, and plugins can be static linked, so new features can
be developed as plugins, then when they are ready included with the
main program just by putting the file in the right place and listing in
the makefile.