Updated Plugins Guide - questions and RFT

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> DeeJay wrote:
>> re: loggerhead. Description should be "Web inteRface for browsing branches"
> 
> Thanks. This will be fixed in the next version.
> 
>> It would be helpful to note that this plugin is not useable by Windows
>> users running from the standalone bzr.exe installer.
> 
> :-( Is there a bug for that already? If not, please raise it against the
> bzr-windows-installers project.

I'm sure there isn't one for bzr-windows-installers... :)

As I understand it, you can't run loggerhead directly because it depends
on paste/simpletal/etc. So either we bundle loggerhead and all its
dependencies, or somebody goes and creates an installer specifically for
loggerhead.

Certainly bzr-xmloutput was the first plugin that figured out the
necessary install bits to be able to install more than just itself.
(Though now that we bundle it, I'm a bit curious what would happen if
one tried to install a 'newer' version...)


The general policy is, If you used the standalone installer to install
bzr, then you need to use an equivalent installer for plugins. I think
we can find some sort of tradeoff between bundling every possible
plugin, and having people do a separate download for some of them.

(Consider things like bzr-git and bzr-hg, which would need to include a
full install of git/hg. We took the hit for bzr-svn because of perceived
usefulness...)

John
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