[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bundling several plugins in a new bzr-plugins (Debian/Ubuntu) package?

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Jan 2 16:42:21 UTC 2008


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 18:00 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>
>> Smaller packages don't need to be uploaded as much as bigger ones.
>> bzr-email hasn't been updated in a long time because there was no need
>> to. 
>>
>> My main concern is that an API change in upstream Bazaar can break one
>> of the plugins, making the whole package less usable (because of
>> warnings about being unable to load a plugin.
> 
> I'd much rather not see a glommed together package but rather N small
> plugin packages and a meta package.
> 
> -Rob

I agree with Robert here. There is already an installer framework for
handling installing lots of things based on one request, let's use it
rather than not allowing people to select just the plugins they want.

John
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