Requiring a plugin's presence

[James Westby]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 04:11 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Alexander's EOL plugin prompted me to consider something about
> plugins that I hadn't before.
> 
> Consider the case of someone using Alexander's plugin to control
> line endings in their branch. If for some reason the plugin gets
> deleted at some point it may be a while before they notice, and in
> that time there may be code with the wrong line endings committed,
which could take a while for them to clear up.

Currently there is no way to ensure that a plugin is present at
any time, for either a user or a branch. This means that mistakes like
those above are possible.

Would it be worth adding some configuration such that a user can specify
that a certain plugin must be loaded for certain operations? I don't 
know how fine grained this should be, but there may be a need there.

Thanks,

James

P.S. sorry for sending the mail before I was finished writing it. On
the plus side I learnt a new keyboard shortcut.