Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
Furthermore, in my work on versioned plugins for the 0.7 release I took
us nearly all the way to having plugins used from the plugins directory
if they are present there. That would remove the need for a download or
a local-deploy for people using the src version of Forrest.
I very much like that. What means very nearly all the way? What is
required to complete that?
Well, it is easy, but it is hard ;-)
There are also two stages to the implementation:
Stage 1 - Install from src
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The easy part is:
add a new condition to the plugin download code that detects when the
src files are available and does a 'local-deploy' in preference to
downloading the unversioned plugins (versioned plugins should always be
downloaded). This is all done in main/targets/plugins.xml
The hard part is:
the versioned download stuff in main/targets/plugins.xml is in need of
refactoring, it is quite complex right now because of all the
conditional behaviour, Ant is not a programming language and it shows in
that file. I have created an issue to convert it to an Ant task.
Stage 2 - Use in-place
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Change the plugin mounting code to mount the plugins from the src directory.
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Both stages can be done without the refactoring, it shouldn't add too
much additional complexity since the extra condition tests would be
added to existing ones. However, I don't want us to loose sight of the
refactoring that is needed.
Speaking personally, I don't have the time to do this right now (should
do after ApacheCon), however, it is something that is very important. If
someone wants to tackle it I will be sure to help out with any questions
they have.
Ross
