$HOME/.bazaar/plugins Path Not Used by Default

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> writes:

    > According to the bzr docs, on *nix, directory $BZR_HOME
    > ($HOME/.bazaar by default), subdirectory "plugins" is, by default,
    > searched for plugins--but that doesn't work for me (using bzr
    > 2.2.1).

Which doc are you referring to ?

http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/user-reference/configuration-help.html

explains all the details about BZR_PLUGIN_PATH.

    > My plugin, thanks to Neil, does work if I drop it into my defined
    > $BZR_PLUGINS directory, however.

This implies you redefine BZR_PLUGIN_PATH ans as explained in the doc,
the default case is that you want to override your own plugins.

If you want to *add* system-wide plugins, then you should use:

  BZR_PLUGIN_PATH=+user:${BZR_PLUGINS}

or 

 BZR_PLUGIN_PATH=${BZR_PLUGINS}:+user

depending on which ones you want to override the others (if it happens
that a plugin is defined in both, otherwise this dones't matter).

     Vincent