Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] [pyblosxom-users] 3rd party plugin repo

[Akai <ope...@gm...>]

Dieter,

I'll learn up about it and see if its possible to seamlessly offer both.


On 12/4/2012 4:06 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> why not just allow both?
> depending on the preference of the original plugin creator, he should be able to choose
> whether his pull request includes the plugin directory itself, or a submodule definition.
>
> personally i think submodules are the better option, you can ask people to include a lot of info
> in their files and/or README's, but it will never be as complete as a submodule using the original
> git repository itself.
> but i would just allow both... as long as you end up with a subdirectory containing the plugin and maybe some documentation
>
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:30:21 +0100
> Florian Bäuerle <flo...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> I just did a pull-request (breadcrumb-plugin) - first time i've been
>> using git and/or github. I hope I did not mess up anything.
>>
>> Anyway, great idea, keep it up!
>>
>> Regards, 
>> Flo
>> Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2012, 11:28 +0200 schrieb Akai Kistune:
>>> Wari -
>>>
>>> Thats why I ask people put contact information with the plugin. While 
>>> there really is nothing I can do about stagnation, I feel this is a good 
>>> solution for all the people running non-git setups or people who 
>>> frequently break their build.
>>>
>>> Also, there is the URL field in the plugin docstring which should be the 
>>> git/svn/server where one can find the 3rd party plugins repos or 
>>> download which should also help counter the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> Asheesh -
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/04/2012 05:20 AM, Wari Wahab wrote:
>>>> Git submodules are really pointers to commits of a particular repos.
>>>> Therefore a release of a plugin would mean a specific commit at the
>>>> original site. Publishing it together with the plugins.git (instead of
>>>> submodules) would mean that all historical logs regarding to a
>>>> particular version is lost.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, there are pros and cons of both approaches, but I have a feeling
>>>> that putting it all in to the plugins.git would lead to the contrib
>>>> situation where plugins get stale after a while. At least with
>>>> pointers/submodules, one can look up the original maintainer, and
>>>> provide updates if needed instead of updating plugins.git, and you then
>>>> have to go back to the original maintainer to update their copy.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, it's all up to you what you think best, I still think the
>>>> submodule idea is great, but I guess there are others out there using
>>>> CVS or Subversion, in which case, submodules don't work for them.
>>>>
>>>> On 04/12/2012 10:36, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Akai Kistune wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Because its not just other git repos, its all over the place. Also -
>>>>>> While I'm not sure how the git submodule process would work, in any
>>>>>> case, publishing to the repo should be akin to a "release" of your
>>>>>> plugin, while the versions in people's personal repos would be the
>>>>>> development versions.
>>>>>> I hope that it will always be possible to pull a working version of a
>>>>>> 3rd party plugin from the repo.
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