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Steamworks is another feature I would like to turn into a plugin.

These are two very important parts of the engine for me, for what that's worth.  Everything I do now is in pursuit of coop multiplayer and I think it's important for developers to get free feedback in their game about what is too simple/boring or too difficult to aid with developer blindness.

Yeah, I am just wondering how this should be exposed to the programmer. I can think of three different ways to interface with C++:

• Procedural DLL commands.
• Procedural DLL commands with OO wrapper classes.
• OO Static library.

I admittedly don't know how that would differ from what seems to work for me now.  I would love to continue to just be able to call:

bool SendP2PPacket( CSteamID steamIDRemote, const void *pubData, uint32 cubData, EP2PSend eP2PSendType, int nChannel = 0 );

 

Is that the original Steam API command?

Yup: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamNetworking#SendP2PPacket

Well in this case you can just include the lib in your project and you don’t really need a middle layer for any reason.

Right, for Steam it's easier.  I'd love to continue doing the same for Game Analytics as well.  I think that one is more complicated to set up.

The whole concept of “plugins” in C++ is probably erroneous. There’s just libraries you can import. In the case of GA you would prefer to use my nice commands over the ugly raw CURL calls.so a couple of C++ files or a lib you import is probably the right approach there.

In that case then yes.  If that's possible that would be very nice.