config file backend : plugin name ?

[Mikael Magnusson]

Philippe Torrelli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For my activeX wrapper, I need to read the configuration out of the
> properties passed to the ActiveX , and to compute some, depending on the
> destination pc.
> I then implemented a custom configuration backend  in a plugin.
> 
> To have it loaded by minisip, without changing the code of the stack , so
> that it remains compatible with future versions ,  
> I need to have ActiveXPropsBackEnd ::getName()
> return one of the names hardcoded into ConfigRegistry::createBackend ..  
> ( arbitrarily chosed « onlineconf » )
> 
> I guess it’s not the final design of the plugin system, is there a better
> thing I should do ?
> 

I think selection of config backend could be improved in minisip. We 
could use for example a program argument, parsed by the Minisip 
constructor, or an environment variable.

Mikael