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Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

> My thoughts about this are inspired by how the node project manages
> packages with its npm package manager and also the fact that I have
> several ideas on the boil at the moment that would definitely benefit
> from a standard way to manage these concerns.

Sounds like you have a plan ;-)

It would be ideal if you can arrange things so that the only thing the
user needs to do is to point your package manager to one subdirectory of
contrib/ and everything necessary would be installed...