> On Aug 4, 2018, at 5:36 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't think there are any predefined helpers in fpm for that kind of > model though, so you'd likely need some additional automation around > setting up auto-generation of certbot-plugin packages (whereas certbot > itself could likely use the existing virtualenv helpers). > > However, the other main option is to handle this in a way similar to > what Mozilla does for Firefox plugins: use the system package manager > to keep the base application up to date, but use application provided > tooling to keep the plugins up to date. There are other benefits to having our application handle plugin installation too (such as helping our discover new plugins).
My main motivation for considering multiple packages from dh-virtualenv/fpm modifying the same virtualenv is to avoid writing our own custom packaging/installation code. I seems we’ll be unable to avoid that entirely though if we’re trying to get all the properties we wanted that I listed in my initial Google Doc. -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/RQBOMHIM2VBU2XH26CRVVSGMP52753J2/
