GSoC_2015_plugin

Framework for plugin-based architecture

Mentors

• Sergey (github: lisitsyn, IRC: lisitsyn)
• Viktor (github: vigsterkr, IRC wiking)

Difficulty & Requirements

Difficult. You need to be able to:

• advanced C++ skills (rather deep understanding of shared libraries, linking, etc)

Description

Currently, Shogun is made of a monolithic structure of classes which seems to be a bit cumbersome to extend and maintain. We consider some kind of plugin architecture as a possible way to solve these problems. Such an architecture would support dynamic behaviour of plugins: a user could download a new classifier and run it instantly without any rebuilds. In this task the student have a chance to get deep understanding of important low-level details of dynamic libraries and ABIs.