On Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Thomas Bruederli wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 2:17 AM, till <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> >  
> > On Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 1:35 AM, rodrigo wrote:
> >  
> > Is there any particular reason the default set of included (but not
> > activated) plugins has not been separated out from the main repository
> > into repositories of their own? I would even argue that skins, aside
> > from the default, should be separate repositories. My group manages our
> > installation with git and it would make my life a ton easier if this
> > were the case.
> >  
> > I don't remember when they were put back into the "master". They used to be
> > more separate.
> >  
>  
>  
> Wrong. Plugins developed and maintained by the Roundcube developers
> always have been part of the master git repository together with the
> code code. The planned composer-based plugin repository is meant for
> 3rd party plugins. The main goal of that repository is to allow plugin
> developers to publish their modules on a centralized platform and
> allow Roundcube sysadmins to pull them into their local installations.
> That isn't necessary for core plugins because they're already part of
> the distribution package.
>  
>  

The plugins were in their own tree in SVN. Maybe that's what I meant.  
> >  
> > We can easily spin them off with a git subtree split — also keeping the
> > history, etc.. But yeah, in its current state composer requires individual
> > repositories and so on. I guess this is more or less of question of handling
> > these externals.
> >  
> > I saw an answer to "[RCD] update.sh (http://update.sh) clobbering custom 
> > plugin configs in
> > main.inc.php?" earlier today, suggesting that a config file within the
> > plugin should be edited. Plugins are basically vendor code, wouldn't it
> > make more sense to make a plugin_name.inc.php within /config, and have a
> > plugin standard (in the form of a config grabber method) that grabs the
> > appropriate config file? This way, the plugin could be updated by
> > composer or git, and there'd be no worry about overwriting configs, or
> > editing vendor code. It'd encourage plugin writers to keep their config
> > separate from the roundcube config, because there'd be an easily
> > accessible function for it.
> >  
>  
>  
> We already have that separation but not in the centralized /config
> directory but in the individual plugin folders. And this basically
> should survive an update via composer.
>  
> > I'd also like that. I think up until now the configuration part hasn't seem
> > too much love and is very legacy. But if you have ideas, feel free to bounce
> > them around. :)
> >  
>  
>  
> There's a general refactoring of the config system planned:
> http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1487311
> Please add your inputs and comments there.
>  
> ~Thomas
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