[Koha-devel] POC of a new plugin system

[Kyle Hall]

Sounds like a good plan!

Kyle

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On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Julian Maurice <julian.maurice at biblibre.com
> wrote:

> I don't know exactly how yet, but yes the plan is to provide a
> replacement for the current plugin system, while letting the possibility
> for the 2 systems to coexist (giving us the time to port existing plugins)
>
> On 26/05/2016 12:24, Kyle Hall wrote:
> > Excellent! Do you plan on supporting the existing Koha hooks so plugins
> > for the existing architecture can be ported? How will this work with the
> > existing plugin system? Is the plan to make it a functional replacement
> > so we don't have two plugin architectures?
> >
> > Kyle
> >
> > <
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> >
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> > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
> >
> > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Julian Maurice
> > <julian.maurice at biblibre.com <mailto:julian.maurice at biblibre.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi all,
> >
> >     A couple of months ago, we talked about how great it would be to
> have a
> >     more powerful plugin system (thread subject was "Country-specific
> forks"
> >     [1]).
> >
> >     The current implementation have some problems. For instance, it's not
> >     possible to properly manage plugins with a VCS (bug 15879 [2] try to
> >     address this issue)
> >
> >     Alex and I have started to write a new plugin system, as an attempt
> to
> >     fix the problems of the current implementation. It's still in a very
> >     "alpha" status, but we would like to hear what you think of it.
> >
> >     Code is in BibLibre repository, branch koha-module-poc:
> >       http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/kohac.git
> >
> >     Features:
> >     * VCS-compatible (every directory under the modules directory and
> >     containing a module.yaml file is a module)
> >     * Allow modules to define custom "URL routes" (see module/router.pl
> >     <http://router.pl>)
> >     * Allow modules to modify the intranet top menu (so they can add a
> link
> >     to their custom routes)
> >     * Allow modules to have their own TT include files and TT plugins
> >
> >     A sample module was made to demonstrate these features:
> >       http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-module-LoremIpsum.git
> >
> >     This module creates a new page which display some "lorem ipsum" text
> >     fetched from loripsum.net <http://loripsum.net>, and add a link to
> >     this page in the intranet
> >     top menu. Very basic but it shows how it works.
> >
> >     Quick start:
> >     1. git remote add biblibre
> http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/kohac.git
> >     2. git checkout -b koha-module-poc biblibre/koha-module-poc
> >     3. installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl <http://updatedatabase.pl>
> >     4. misc/devel/update_dbix_class_files.pl
> >     <http://update_dbix_class_files.pl>
> >     5. mkdir /path/to/modules
> >     6. Edit $KOHA_CONF and add a line
> >          <modules_dir>/path/to/modules</modules_dir>
> >     7. cd /path/to/modules && git clone
> >     http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-module-LoremIpsum.git
> LoremIpsum
> >     (note: the directory's name is important)
> >     8. Go to Administration > Modules
> >     9. Enable the module LoremIpsum
> >     10. You should now see a new link in the top menu
> >
> >     Final note: we would like to work on it during the hackfest in
> >     Thessaloniki, so if you are interested, let us know!
> >
> >
> >     [1]
> >
> http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-February/042382.html
> >     [2] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15879
> >
> >     --
> >     Julian Maurice <julian.maurice at biblibre.com
> >     <mailto:julian.maurice at biblibre.com>>
> >     BibLibre
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>
> --
> Julian Maurice <julian.maurice at biblibre.com>
> BibLibre
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