List plugins installed?

[Tim Penhey]

Thanks Marco.

Would be good to have something solid to drive the plug-in changes with.

Tim

On 30/09/16 11:16, Marco Ceppi wrote:
> Thanks have some ideas about this, I'll file a bug (blueprint?) about
> it. I really care about plugins and would like to make them more robust
> in Juju.
>
> Marco
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 6:07 PM Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com
> <mailto:tim.penhey at canonical.com>> wrote:
>
>     If we do that, then we can make the plug-in also install a metadata file
>     that explains help and usage, so you don't call the script to do that.
>
>     It makes it easy to list plug-ins, because you are searching a known
>     location, and not the entire path. Only show plug-ins that have the
>     appropriate meta-data file.
>
>     Tim
>
>     On 30/09/16 10:47, Nate Finch wrote:
>     > Seem alike the easiest thing to do is have a designated plugin
>     directory
>     > and have juju install <path/to/plugin> copy the binary/script there.
>     > Then we're only running plugins the user has specifically asked to
>     install.
>     >
>     > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 4:33 AM Stuart Bishop
>     <stuart.bishop at canonical.com <mailto:stuart.bishop at canonical.com>
>     > <mailto:stuart.bishop at canonical.com
>     <mailto:stuart.bishop at canonical.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 28 September 2016 at 22:45, roger peppe
>     >     <roger.peppe at canonical.com <mailto:roger.peppe at canonical.com>
>     <mailto:roger.peppe at canonical.com
>     <mailto:roger.peppe at canonical.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         On 28 September 2016 at 14:55, Rick Harding
>     >         <rick.harding at canonical.com
>     <mailto:rick.harding at canonical.com>
>     <mailto:rick.harding at canonical.com <mailto:rick.harding at canonical.com>>>
>     >         wrote:
>     >         > This is just a miss. The original ability to see the
>     plugins was a subset of
>     >         > the help command and didn't make our CLI spreadsheet for
>     things to rework. I
>     >         > agree that list-plugins is the right idea here and that
>     means that plugins
>     >         > becomes a noun in our language.
>     >         >
>     >         > What's interesting is that add/remove fall out because that
>     >         > installing/uninstalling. I think that show-plugin might
>     be interesting to
>     >         > auto run the --description flag to bring it into CLI
>     alignment with the new
>     >         > world order.
>     >
>     >         I've voiced discomfort with this before - I don't think
>     that we
>     >         should
>     >         arbitrarily run all executables that happen to have a "juju-"
>     >         prefix.
>     >         It's potentially dangerous (for example, note that
>     although git
>     >         relies heavily
>     >         on plugins, it doesn't execute a plugin until you explicitly
>     >         name it).
>     >
>     >         Perhaps there could be a standard way for a plugin to provide
>     >         metadata about itself as a data file.
>     >
>     >
>     >     It also might be time to work out how a Juju snap is going to call
>     >     or install plugins. I don't think the existing design is going to
>     >     work, and there is still time to flag it as deprecated in the
>     >     changelogs for 2.0 and work out the way forward for 2.1.
>     >
>     >
>     >     --
>     >     Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com
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