Re: Anyone got ideas on how to make Gajim aware of plugins in store?

[Marius Bakke]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.9K bytes:
>> 
>> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Do I use native-search-paths? There is no variable
>> > which is used in Gajim, so I think maybe I need to
>> > include this in the wrapper and add something similar
>> > to the native-search-path which would look in
>> > ~/.guix-profile/share/gajim/plugins/ for $name-of-plugin
>> > to PATH?
>> 
>> Gajim assumes that there is a single plugin directory, which has to be
>> set at configuration time.  This means that you cannot even default it
>> to ~/.guix-profile/share/gajim/plugins, because people might use
>> different profile directories.
>> 
>> The best way to fix this is upstream by sending them a patch that would
>> make Gajim look for plugins in other directories, either by implementing
>> a search path environment variable or by adding a key to the
>> configuration file.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ricardo
>> 
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>
> I've got this reply on my ticket, so maybe I didn't explain my
> problem well enough.
> Does someone have an answer that is easy to understand to pass on
> (or better: sign up and deal with it upstream)?

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> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:58:07 +0200
> From: Yann Leboulanger <address@hidden>
> To: ng0
> Subject: Re: gajim | plugins: location: implement either search-path or 
> option for configuration file (#8682)
>
> Gajim looks in 2 places for plugins:
>  - $XDG_DATA_HOME/gajim/plugins
>   - GAJIM_INSTALL_PATH/plugins (/usr/share/gajim/plugins for example)
>
> So you can set $XDG_DATA_HOME to something else. Isn't it enough?

I went ahead and looked at the source:

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/blob/master/gajim/common/configpaths.py#L67-106

It looks like what we want is PLUGINS_BASE to resolve to
"$GAJIM_PLUGIN_PATH/share/gajim/plugins". A more upstream-friendly way
might be to add another gajimpath, say PLUGINS_PATH, and add it here:

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/blob/master/gajim/common/gajim.py#L72

Would you like to try it?

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