[Koha-devel] Divergent handling (?) of Koha's <pluginsdir>

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi,

I'm wondering why Koha's <pluginsdir> is handled differently between
git / tarball and .deb packages. I'm seeing certain divergence (i
think?) as follows:

1) Installed master from git (3.17.00.014) - found
/var/lib/koha/plugins to exist under /home/<user>/koha-dev, created
off /home/<user>kohaclone/skel/var/lib/plugins. It is even defined in
koha-conf.xml.

2) Downloaded and unzipped koha-latest.tar.gz - same thing, I see the
folder "/var/lib/koha/plugins" under skel.

3) However in koha-common_3.16.02_all.deb, the same folder is not present.

Instead, the directory has to be created as described in
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.16/en/pluginsystem.html

why is this so?

thanks in advance.

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