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dominic.hargreaves at oucs

Oct 20, 2009, 3:16 AM

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Packaging plugins

Hi,

I'm in the process of packaging RTx::EmailCompletion for Debian.
However, I've realised that I actually need to extend the plugin
loader to cope with this, since I can't put my packaged plugins
in /usr/local where the plugin loader expects them.

Has anyone done this before? The patch to add this to RT shouldn't
be too hard and obviously it's easy to deploy for the Debian packaged
version, but I wanted to run this idea past people generally first
to avoid creating problems down the line.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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racke at linuxia

Oct 20, 2009, 3:44 AM

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Re: Packaging plugins [In reply to]

Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of packaging RTx::EmailCompletion for Debian.
> However, I've realised that I actually need to extend the plugin
> loader to cope with this, since I can't put my packaged plugins
> in /usr/local where the plugin loader expects them.
>
> Has anyone done this before? The patch to add this to RT shouldn't
> be too hard and obviously it's easy to deploy for the Debian packaged
> version, but I wanted to run this idea past people generally first
> to avoid creating problems down the line.
>

What's keeping you from installing the plugins into /usr/share?

Regards
Racke

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dominic.hargreaves at oucs

Oct 20, 2009, 4:11 AM

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Re: Packaging plugins [In reply to]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:16:49AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> I'm in the process of packaging RTx::EmailCompletion for Debian.
> However, I've realised that I actually need to extend the plugin
> loader to cope with this, since I can't put my packaged plugins
> in /usr/local where the plugin loader expects them.
>
> Has anyone done this before? The patch to add this to RT shouldn't
> be too hard and obviously it's easy to deploy for the Debian packaged
> version, but I wanted to run this idea past people generally first
> to avoid creating problems down the line.

And here's the proposed patch:

http://rt3.fsck.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=13975

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dominic.hargreaves at oucs

Oct 20, 2009, 4:38 AM

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Re: Packaging plugins [In reply to]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:44:27PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> What's keeping you from installing the plugins into /usr/share?

If you mean randomly scattered in /usr/share/request-tracker3.8/{lib,etc}
then nothing is stopping me from doing that. But I'd rather stay with
the model of using a separate plugin dir, so that people can enable
and disable them as intended by the authors.

If you mean what's stopping me using
/usr/share/request-tracker3.8/plugins/Plugin-Dir then this is exactly
what this patch is adding support for.

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jesse at bestpractical

Oct 20, 2009, 1:12 PM

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Re: Packaging plugins [In reply to]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:16:49AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of packaging RTx::EmailCompletion for Debian.
> However, I've realised that I actually need to extend the plugin
> loader to cope with this, since I can't put my packaged plugins
> in /usr/local where the plugin loader expects them.
>
> Has anyone done this before? The patch to add this to RT shouldn't
> be too hard and obviously it's easy to deploy for the Debian packaged
> version, but I wanted to run this idea past people generally first
> to avoid creating problems down the line.
>
It's a prefectly reasonable change.
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