X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/729991564ec7e1116fc023c51e73b47af8b6fce7..7b664f415107ffb6538dfe41d3fba640af1523b9:/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn index c28003e74..204b588b0 100644 --- a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn @@ -22,3 +22,11 @@ As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some direc >> external plugins means it's automatically in their `sys.path` without >> needing special configuration. --[[smcv]] >> (a mostly-inactive member of Debian's Python modules packaging team) + +>>> I mostly agree, but a problem arises when the external plugin we are using is not located in the same directory as the `proxy.py` file, but in a directory somewhere in a `libdir` or `libdirs` directory. Right now (for a soon-to-be published plugin I am working on) the solutions I am thinking about are: +>>> +>>> - Call ikiwiki using ``PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins ikiwiki ...``, but it is a pain to write this each time I want to use this (and any solution like creating a custom script do not seem very nice); +>>> - Make my plugin add `/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins` to its python path, but I do not know how portable this is for a non Debian distribution. +>>> +>>> Any better idea (and sorry for digging up an old post)? +>>> -- [[Louis|spalax]]