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diff --git a/doc/bugs/external_plugins_cannot_access_ARGV_needed_for_getopt.mdwn b/doc/bugs/external_plugins_cannot_access_ARGV_needed_for_getopt.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..be7f16a79 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/external_plugins_cannot_access_ARGV_needed_for_getopt.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The `getopt` hook expects plugins to modify `@ARGV`. This is not exported via xml-rpc and thus external plugins cannot do anything. --[[madduck]] + +> I can think of two interfaces to handle this. +> +> 1. Pass @ARGV to the hook, and remove any values the hook returns from @ARGV. +> 2. Provide an XML-RPC interface for setting and getting ikiwiki's @ARGV. +> +> The first is simpler, but requires keeping track of which options to +> remove, which could be a pain, and probably precludes using regular +> getopt libraries to process options. It also could theoretically cause +> problems for existing perl getopt hooks. +> +> The second should allow using regular getopt libraries, but does bloat +> the RPC interface. Oh well, guess that's ok. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |