RFC: shipping external-tree plugins

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 02:42 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:


> And that's bzrtools.  Imagine we ship something a lot lower profile,
> like bzr-stats.
> 
> bzr-stats' "ancestor-growth" command is broken with bzr.dev/1.6 (it
> wants get_revision_graph).  I'm not entirely sure WHAT that command
> does.  The help doesn't tell me anything meaningful about the output,
> and a glance at it gives me only a vague idea.  Even with that, I
> don't know what I'd ever want to do with it.  It's probably the most
> obscure command in a somewhat obscure plugin.  But since it's shipped
> with bzr, the only way a new version can go out is if a new bzr
> release is made with it.  Well, people could override it themselves
> with their ~/.bazaar/plugins/, but the system-wide installation is
> stuck, until the bzr team rolls a new bzr release.

I think that if/when bzr bundles plugins we will have to roll point
releases to include fixes to the bundled plugins - its part and parcel
of presenting more code to the user by default.

-Rob
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