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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:42:02 +1000
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
>
>
>

By that you mean the contrib/ directory as the repository of
extensions, with one such extension being the plugin manager itself?

jon.