bzr-plugin-info [suggest plugins at runtime]

[Martin Pool]

> I think a sensible next step would be to expand the metadata spec to
> accommodate hooks as well as some advertising docs, home page etc. (Some
> of these are available from setup.py PKG_INFO, but you have to build
> that to get at it: perhaps we should teach plugin-info how to do that as
> well.

That would be good but it doesn't need to be next.

>
> I'd like to see this (with a better list of urls) shipped to users by
> default in Lucid; we don't need it to be much more comprehensive; we
> don't need to have this perfect first, after all.
>
> We could ship it by default a few different ways:
>  - bundle as a plugin in core
>  - recommend: in the binary packaging (and suggest other platforms do
> the same)
>  - ???
>
> I don't have a strong preference. I have a weak preference to keep it
> outside the core: its been good for the core to prepare for this plugin,
> and I like to keep that clarity.

I think for something that's meant to help people get bootstrapped
having it in the main tree would be highly worthwhile.  It's true we
can do dpkg-level Recommends or ship it in the Win32 installer, but
people will install from source and should get this.  So I'd like it
as a shipped plugin.

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