Patch #13927
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Reduce coupling between plugins and the "plugins/" directory
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Description
Today plugins are just directories in <redmine root>/plugins/ directory. There are a few implicit assumptions in Redmine code that this is the case, which doesn't add much benefit I think. This reference is needed in the plugin discovery mechanism, but I can see obvious reasons why it may appear anywhere else.
It has at least one disadvantage: it prevents from easily distributing plugins as gems or via an other mechanism (which I think has a long list of advantages that I could enumerate an other day).
An other motivation is that removing this would lead to clearer code I think, we could remove some Dir.glob and File.xxx calls in favor of new, clear methods in Redmine::Plugin.
I'll try to work on that and link commit to this issue.
Related issues
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 11 years ago
The reason of moving "plugins" to "lib/plugins" is Rails3 prints deprecated warning.
See: r9533.
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 11 years ago
Toshi MARUYAMA wrote:
The reason of moving "plugins" to "lib/plugins" is Rails3 prints deprecated warning.
See: r9533.
Sorry, I posted unrelated matters.
I think Redmine plugin mechanism problem is how to deal assets.
Current Redmine disables asset pipeline.
source:trunk/config/application.rb@11786#L46
Updated by Jean-Baptiste Barth over 11 years ago
Actually that's one problem in Redmine plugins, but I have a few dozen others I could talk about. Re-enabling the asset pipeline can be done today in a standard Redmine plugin but it's a bit hacky and rough around the edges (see this plugin for a proof-of-concept). I'll write about plugin concerns and some proposals in a blog post soon.
Updated by Florian Schwab about 11 years ago
Hi,
I added another issue a while back with a patch that extends this with the (at least in my opinion) missing support for migrations. -> #14402
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 11 years ago
- Related to Patch #14402: Plugin migration directory should use plugin directory added
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 9 years ago
Jean-Baptiste Barth wrote:
Actually that's one problem in Redmine plugins, ...
FYI, OpenProject (GPL3, Redmine fork) uses plugin gem.
https://github.com/opf/openproject/blob/v4.2.2/doc/DEVELOP_PLUGINS.md
Updated by Mischa The Evil over 7 years ago
- Related to Patch #24007: Change plugins directory through the configuration.yml file added
Updated by Mischa The Evil over 7 years ago
- Related to Patch #26139: Follow Gemfile's plugin loader as #24007 added