From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:15:37 +1000 Message-ID: References: <7vwrig9ta7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsjt49stq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk4eg9rsf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4DB7CC7C.2050508@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 27 10:15:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QEzua-0004bj-Qk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:15:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754654Ab1D0IPn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:15:43 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:50464 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753813Ab1D0IPi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:15:38 -0400 Received: by vxi39 with SMTP id 39so1107364vxi.19 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:15:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=0gEqke/0mMC8ksljEdcsiOjMCAi8KWDKXTX3a9fdwGc=; b=S6aCxqNN72lIO8uiP4ALA/o9NmhDYQLrCGA3fjAuuKQgleIJ4x4HoJ/OctgrA52lT/ eBOtS3uIEcUKUcBgKIxge491iTwAe5bPn9eppqytcTqGk6NnD51rorYM3vTraWZrZktk LIQwx/blzS4OKxq2j+0zq2hbZ8Z5daRKT8WtA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=YU662Gc8cU4OfTdVPVHQmGkXd8AnzV68mkmX6EsXIGHa+wX++XwIMhWSeP1SFJPzYF yukRFMej8ma1DGBir+nxxeD4u8NCuv4afWS9U6f8IoXnz60KaUzkcJpL7HKt+CppanIC fORIexvwHymhOVdtWQvJbsV/ku/aaHirPms5o= Received: by 10.52.71.148 with SMTP id v20mr2720911vdu.266.1303892137307; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.160.66 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:15:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DB7CC7C.2050508@drmicha.warpmail.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > I'm sorry to spoil the party before it started but I'm not very fond of > having yet another package manager orthogonal to what distributions have > already. This is definitely not a way to get anything like that into a > distribution which has proper policies. I am happy to defer work on a full-blown package manager for now. I do agree, the world already has a surfeit of package managers. As I say, I'd prefer a minimal interface that could be back-ended by one or more of those if possible. Initially I'd like to focus on: * a descriptor format for packages providing hints about how to activate an extension * guidelines for the filesystem layout of extensions themselves * a way to locally locate extensions that might be subject to activation * the interface between the git runtime and the activated package repository * the interface to activate/deactivate a locally located package I also want to avoid baking in any too many decisions about things like registries and distribution models. That can come later. jon.