Comment 3 for bug 411413

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 411413] Re: want configuration items to disable/enable plugins

2009/8/12 Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden>:
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> Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>> Please consider making it based on the directory name instead of
>> the plugin name so that it can also be used to allow testing
>> various branches of the same plugin.
>>
>> Of course a single directory can be allowed for a given plugin and
>> there may be some trickery involved when mapping the directory to
>> the python namespace (I'm not familiar with the plugin loading code
>> so I may be wrong).
> I submitted a merge request for this earlier attempting to work
> towards this but it was rejected:
>
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~jelmer/bzr/plugin-refactor/+merge/9005

We should talk about that more then, but probably not in this bug.
Aside from some detailed comments by Robert he just says "it doesn't
seem like a good conceptual idea", but I'm not sure it's a bad idea.

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