CODERS PLEASE DISCUSS!!! Pre-Datastore modifications with XML-files (UPDATE 28-7)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Nice to see there is some life in this topic again.

Let me just try to get the original problem clear again:
- You can do a lot without code changes with 3.5, there is however 1 thing you can not: If your hack adds a new entry to the datastore, you will have to edit each file to add your datastore item to the list of items to be fetched. You can not use hooks, because they are only loaded after the datastore is read.
- If we can easily without extra effort also add a simple way to do the same for template caching, then do so. It would reduce the number of plugins needed for your hack.

The original idea was to come with a solution that Jelsoft even might consider implementing, but since we are already on RC2, i doubt that will happen. Second best would be a standarized way of handling this as a community, so that whatever hack you use, file edits would only have to be made once.