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Ceate plugin system for interoperability

End goal - provide an extensible mechanism for basic interaction between Ekos and external programs. Two examples of use are:

  • EAA using Siril as external live stacker with the Capture Module providing images
  • Planetary image capture using FireCapture with Ekos providing INDI server management

Initial investigations suggest:

  • Use the QT Plugins low-level application extension API
  • Iterate available plugins (stored in AppLocalDataLocation/plugins) at startup, provide a drop-down selection list and launch button in capture.ui
  • Will need to allow users to enter and store external program paths.
  • Each internal function required to be called needs to be defined in a pluginactions.h that can be #included in capture.cpp & the calling plugins. I plan to only expose the initially required functions rather than try to anticipate future requirements.