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-Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to /usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to be a more appropriate place, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir.
+Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external
+plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are
+installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For
+the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to
+/usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to
+be a more appropriate place, see:
+https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir.
+
+> This would need to be a build time configuration setting so the directory
+> is built into ikiwiki for use at runtime. --[[Joey]]
 
 As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some directory on the python path.
+
+> If someone can show how to do so without needing a Setup.py and all the
+> pain that using one entails.. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> At the very least I don't think proxy.py should be on the `sys.path`
+>> under its current name. If it was renamed to ikiwiki_proxy or some such,
+>> possibly; but I think it's more appropriate to have it in an
+>> ikiwiki-specific directory (a "private module") since it's not useful for
+>> anything outside ikiwiki, and putting it in the same directory as the
+>> 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]]