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diff --git a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c28003e74 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external +plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are +installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For +the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to +/usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to +be a more appropriate place, see: +https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir. + +> This would need to be a build time configuration setting so the directory +> is built into ikiwiki for use at runtime. --[[Joey]] + +As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some directory on the python path. + +> If someone can show how to do so without needing a Setup.py and all the +> pain that using one entails.. --[[Joey]] + +>> At the very least I don't think proxy.py should be on the `sys.path` +>> under its current name. If it was renamed to ikiwiki_proxy or some such, +>> possibly; but I think it's more appropriate to have it in an +>> ikiwiki-specific directory (a "private module") since it's not useful for +>> anything outside ikiwiki, and putting it in the same directory as the +>> external plugins means it's automatically in their `sys.path` without +>> needing special configuration. --[[smcv]] +>> (a mostly-inactive member of Debian's Python modules packaging team) |