Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?

Assuming for the moment that the concept of a managed plugin is accepted, then.

The relationship between distribution managers and the git-plugin architecture would be as follows:

- distributions would know how to locate the git instance it manages
- distributions would know how to install their own packages that
contain plugins into plugins/ subdirectory of this git instance
- distributions would know how to run git plugin activate and properly
handle non-zero return codes from same

make install scripts would act like a kind of distribution in this regard.

Now consider this:

* suppose that git-core defined a git install _interface contract_ but
did not define an implementation.

Then, a distribution could install its own implementation of the git-install plugin into git installations it manages.

Then a command like:

    git install gitwork

would trivially work across all distributions precisely because the distribution has provided the implementation of the git install interface contract that git-core has helpfully mandated.

jon.