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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I were to unpack 5 different Koha plugins to /opt/koha-plugins and then added "<pluginsdir>/opt/koha-plugins</pluginsdir>" to the koha-conf.xml for all my Koha instances, I should be able to just run “koha-foreach perl /usr/share/koha/bin/devel/install_plugins.pl” to install/upgrade all those plugins within Koha, right?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Once “bug 21366 – add plack reload” is done, we could then do “koha-plack --reload $(koha-list --enabled --plack)” to gracefully reload all those Koha instances to have the freshest version of the plugin. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If that’s true, a person could bundle Koha plugins however they like, right? They could put them into koha-common, they could do their own koha-plugins package (included or separate to their Koha codebase), they could just use a Git repo, or whatever makes sense for distributing. The advantage of Debian packages would be adding that “koha-foreach” and “koha-plack” into package install hooks. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suppose a “install plugins” hook in “koha-create” would be wise too so that a new instance could auto install any centralized plugins…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does that all make sense? Am I missing anything?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’d really like to use plugins in lieu of Koha customizations but I find distributing the code across a large number of Koha instances to be prohibitive. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Cook<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Senior Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prosentient Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suite 7.03<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>6a Glen St<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Milsons Point NSW 2061<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: 02 9212 0899<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Online: 02 8005 0595<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>