Bundling more plugins into bzrtools

[James Henstridge]

On 14/02/2008, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> This piece isn't about finding new versions.  It's about packaging
> separate upstream projects as opposed to packaging a single upstream
> project.  There is overhead for each package created in a distribution
> no matter how small the code is.  So from a packager's perspective,
> twenty individual, small upstream plugins is a much larger time
> commitment than one slightly larger package that contains all of those
> plugins.

A lot of the plugins come with distutils setup.py scripts, so should
be pretty much identical to install.  The setup.py event contains some
of the metadata you'd want for the package.

Won't it be possible to cargo-cult most of this packaging effort from
one plugin to the next?  Is there anything we could do to improve
this?

James.