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On 07/31/2012 02:45 AM, Dan Wendlandt wrote:
> Yes, we've had this discussion many times :)  I agree that people find
> the term "plugin" confusing, but each time we've talked about it, we've
> failed to find a single term that is substantially better to warrant the
> confusion likely to be caused by renaming.  
> 
> In some cases I've started using the term "engine" when describing the
> plugin concept to people, since its really about a "pluggable backend"
> that powers the generic quantum API layer.  The name "driver" was very
> intentionally not chosen, as driver implies that it is specific to a
> particular type of back-end device, whereas a Quantum plugin is really
> more about an overall strategy of creating logical networks, etc.  For
> example, you could have a generic VLAN plugin that has drivers to talk
> to many different types of switches.  

What about "strategy", then? :)

-jay