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namecoin / nmcontrol

Namecoin Control. This repo is deprecated in favor of https://github.com/namecoin/ncdns
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Plugin Management #56

Closed indolering closed 9 years ago

indolering commented 9 years ago

Forgive my ignorance of previous discussions, but shouldn't the plugins be modularized away from the core repo? This occurred to me while working on a post about development vs stable branches and I don't think that major changes to a plugin shouldn't require breaking the main repo or switching branches.

I'm not sure what the right level of abstraction is, perhaps there should be a repo with default plugins that is a submodule to namecoin/nmcontrol. Since we have mainly first-party plugins, we could just host them all right there. However, I think each plugin should have it's own directory and perhaps a setup.py file for version info.

I'm not sure if we should have external plugins register with PyPi yet, I don't think that there are enough of them. We could just have a list of links on the main NMControl repo readme.md. Once that get's unwieldy, we could switch to PyPi.....

JeremyRand commented 9 years ago

So, in principle I wouldn't really have a huge objection to having the plugins be in independent GitHub repos. However, I don't see much practical benefit either. Are you looking at the use case of someone who needs unreleased/bleeding-edge versions of a subset of plugins, but stable versions of other plugins? That seems like a use case that's rare and probably knows how to use Git to get what they want anyway. I don't see any other use cases for this.

phelixbtc commented 9 years ago

Most current plugins are only technically plugins, I would call them core plugins. Maybe for new optional large plugins but IMHO even then it may be too early as it complicates packaging etc.

phelixbtc commented 9 years ago

About to close.

JeremyRand commented 9 years ago

@phelixbtc I'm okay with closing. We can re-file a ticket when this becomes more relevant.