[CIL users] New feature: CIL plugins

[Gabriel K. <ga...@ke...>]

Dear all,

I have just merged my work on CIL plugins into the "develop" branch of
the git repository. This is of interest to anybody who writes his own
CIL features (previously configured using EXTRA_FEATURES).

The CIL documentation has not been updated yet. It will of course be
updated before the 2.0 release, but this might take a while.

In the meantime, I have published a small "gist" containing a README and
a sample CIL plugin:

  https://gist.github.com/kerneis/6353215#file-readme-md

You can get the code with git:

  git clone https://gist.github.com/kerneis/6353215

Updating your features from a previous version to a plugin should be
very straightforward. Just follow the instructions in the gist above.

I'm reasonably happy with the API and UI, but I'd really like people to
test this as much as possible and argue about it before the next
release. Let's try and break things only once.

Best regards,
-- 
Gabriel