From 7592a6f5b6349ecd6d52d701c2975cb509c98292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:26:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] I don't think putting proxy.py in the system Python path is appropriate --- doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn index 28b762080..c28003e74 100644 --- a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn @@ -13,3 +13,12 @@ As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some direc > If someone can show how to do so without needing a Setup.py and all the > pain that using one entails.. --[[Joey]] + +>> At the very least I don't think proxy.py should be on the `sys.path` +>> under its current name. If it was renamed to ikiwiki_proxy or some such, +>> possibly; but I think it's more appropriate to have it in an +>> ikiwiki-specific directory (a "private module") since it's not useful for +>> anything outside ikiwiki, and putting it in the same directory as the +>> external plugins means it's automatically in their `sys.path` without +>> needing special configuration. --[[smcv]] +>> (a mostly-inactive member of Debian's Python modules packaging team) -- 2.26.2