On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Andrew Dalke <da...@dalkescientific.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working with the Akara project. It contains a web server. The server
> loads extensions from a special directory (let's say "$AKARA" for now). An
> extension can register handlers for URLs. An example extension might look
> like:
>
> installs to $AKARA/spam_extension.py
> (note: only .py files are supported; not even .pyc files)
> =========================
> from akara.services import simple_service
>
> import my_spam # This is part of the distribution, and gets put in
> site-packages
>
> @simple_service("GET", "http://vikings.protocol.id/";)
> def vikings(say=my_spam.DEFAULT_TEXT):
> return my_spam.vikings(say)
> =========================
>
>
> We want people to be able to distribute Akara plugins and install via
> setup.py. Ideally I would like to say:
>
> from distutils.core import setup
> from akara.distutils ... I'm not sure what here ...
>
> setup(name="Spam services",
> package="my_spam",
> akara_extensions=["spam_extension.py"]
> )
>
>
> To clarify, the development/distribution package looks like:
> $PACKAGE/setup.py
> $PACKAGE/README
> $PACKAGE/spam_extensions.py
> $PACKAGE/my_spam/__init__.py
> $PACKAGE/my_spam/dramatis_personae.py
> $PACKAGE/my_spam/cafe.py
>
> and $PACKAGE/spam_extensions.py goes to $AKARA/spam_extensions.py while
> $PACKAGE/my_spam is copied to site-packages.
>
> The installation does not need to byte-compile spam_extension.py.
>
> It should also include spam_extension.py in any distribution that it makes.
>
>
> I looked through the documentation and searched for existing examples, but
> found nothing which does this. The plugins I found used entry_points, and
> that's an architecture change which I don't think is appropriate for us.
>
> Suggestions?
>
What about having an explicit configuration file in Akara for plugins,
where you just add extensions,
exactly like mercurial does:
[extensions]
foo = package.spam_extension
bar = spam_extension2
where "package.spam_extension" and "spam_extension2" are modules Akara
would simply __import__()
Meaning a plugin will be a normal project that gets installed, and
then configured to be used in Akara.
Tarek
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