From: Jon Seymour Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:15:19 GMT Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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.