[MERGE] bzr.exe: move builtin plugins out of library.zip to directory 'plugins'

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Martin Albisetti <argentina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>  > On 30/01/2008, Martin Albisetti <argentina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  > A few users have already dropped into #bzr wanting for some easy way
>  >  >  to remove bundled plugins (specifically the Launchpad one),
>  >
>
> >  I would like to know if it's that there's some bug that makes them
>  >  want to avoid it, if it's something about Launchpad, if it's load
>  >  time, if it's a desire for minimalism, or something else.
>
>  It can be any or all of those.
>  It also is too ubuntu-specific, which might not appeal to some developers.
>
>  As useful as it can be, I do think that it should be uninstallable in
>  an easy way (I want to address this with the plugin management spec
>  too).
>
>  Is there any valid reason for it not to be removable?

It seems like there are valid reasons _to_ make it possible to remove
or disable, and I don't object to doing so.  At the technical level if
it fits in with managing plugins more generally rather than a special
case in the Windows installer that would seem more desirable.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>