Right dabapush relies on a home baked solution for plug in mangement which involves a YAML-file in the installation directory. Thus, updating/installing/removing plug ins is cumbersome and error-prone. This applies especially for the smo-database plug-ins which are not linked into the repository as a sub-repo.
Solution
Setuptools' entrypoint system allows for dynamic registration of plug-ins. We can discover them at run-time. Thus, we can remove the hard dependency on smo-database and also enable other parties for use their own plug-ins.
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Right
dabapushrelies on a home baked solution for plug in mangement which involves a YAML-file in the installation directory. Thus, updating/installing/removing plug ins is cumbersome and error-prone. This applies especially for thesmo-databaseplug-ins which are not linked into the repository as a sub-repo.Solution
Setuptools' entrypoint system allows for dynamic registration of plug-ins. We can discover them at run-time. Thus, we can remove the hard dependency on
smo-databaseand also enable other parties for use their own plug-ins.