(rfc) recommend installing a plugin when needed

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Martin Pool wrote:
> So I wonder if we could, or should, do this for Bazaar.  If someone
> types 'bzr shelve' we can suggest bzrtools, gannotate for bzr-gtk and
> so on.  This could be as simple as registering stub commands or help
> topics for the most important plugin commands.
>   
If you shipped a plugin which intercepts a command-not-found event, and 
checks an internal dictionary of commands and plugins, then you could 
get this sort of experience:

  peregrine%  bzr shelve

  'shelve' is not a standard bzr command. However, 2 certified plugins 
provide this command:

     bzrtools
     bzrwhizz

  To install a certified plugin, type:

     bzr --fetch-plugin pluginname

  peregrine%


This way, bzr can avoid bloat, and people have an incentive to get their 
plugins approved for a particular release.

Mark
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