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<sect1 id="plugins-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>Every player has its own tastes about what a good &vgap;
client should have as a feature, so it's impossible to write a
good client for all of us. From the beginning, &gwp; was started to
be client that will provide basic functionality in a friendly way to
novice &vgap; players, and will provide customization capabilities
to veteran ones.</para>
<para>The plugin system enable any player with programming skills to
write his or her own piece of functionality and add it to the whole
&gwp; in a very integrated way. For this to happen, the Python
interpreter was embedded on &appname;, Python is a well known
interpreted and object oriented, programming languaje, used and
supported by a huge community on the Internet.</para>
<para>&appname;'s planets, ships, starchart, user interface, etc. is
accessible by the plugin interpreter so the plugin writer will
manipulate those entities as objects, in a very natural way. Also,
game and key events are forwarded to the plugins so that they can
take action if neccesary.</para>
<para>In short, the plugin system is made for you to customize your
own &appname;, and to share those customizations with your
friends. If you make a cool plugin, you can <ulink
url="mailto:lucas@lunix.com.ar">send it to me</ulink>, and I'll
check if it can be added to the default distribution.</para>
</sect1>
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