(rfc) recommend installing a plugin when needed

[Martin Albisetti]

On Feb 7, 2008 11:51 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> The db with bzr (which I imagine would be just a Python dict)

My idea is for it to be an XML file so we can have some flexibility
with the data it stores, read it once every update and serialize it to
disk as a python dict so we don't process the XML every time.


> To map from the desired plugin name to the download location (branch,
> deb, rpm), I would say we should use the network rather than storing
> it in Bazaar.

This complicates things a bit for the first stage, as we would print
out to screen the URL where the user can download the plugin from.

I would like to have all the necessary information already locally
available if possible.



Martin