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Built-in Extensions
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The followig ready-to-use classes give you this exact extra
functionality you need for your plugin manager:


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   VersionedPluginManager
   ConfigurablePluginManager
   AutoInstallPluginManager
   FilteredPluginManager
   MultiprocessPluginManager


The following item offer customization for the way plugins are
described and detected:

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   PluginFileLocator


If you want to build your own extensions, have a look at the following
interfaces:

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   IPluginLocator
   PluginManagerDecorator

If you want to isolate your plugins in separate processes with the
``MultiprocessPluginManager``, you should look at the following
classes too:

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   IMultiprocessChildPlugin
   MultiprocessPluginProxy