Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to /usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to be a more appropriate place, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir. > This would need to be a build time configuration setting so the directory > is built into ikiwiki for use at runtime. --[[Joey]] As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some directory on the python path. > 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)