Thank you for this clarification, I will proceed this way then. On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 7:07 PM Megan Marsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good question. Moving forward, the vast majority of builders are going to > be community-based like Terraform does. VSphere got merged because we > already head VMWare support and we're hoping to clean up the official > support for VMWare. It was easier to merge that particular builder and keep > working on it instead of duplicating work internally. But for most > builders, especially ones that don't already have some kind of support > inside the Packer core, "community" is how it's going to go. > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:59 AM Marc Falzon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm about to start implementing a new builder, and upon reading the official >> documentation <https://www.packer.io/docs/extending/plugins/> I've >> learned about Packer's plugins but I am a bit confused as to if it is the >> official way to implement new functionalities to Packer nowadays: are >> contributors expected to implement support for new >> builders/post-processors/etc as "community" plugins in external >> repositories (pretty much as Terraform does for providers), or to submit >> pull requests to the official Packer project's repository? I'm asking this >> because in the list of community builders the vSphere >> <https://github.com/jetbrains-infra/packer-builder-vsphere> one is >> marked as deprecated as it's been "merged into official Packer repository >> and released with Packer since version 1.5.2". >> >> Cheers, >> >> m. >> >> -- >> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >> violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing >> list. >> >> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues >> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Packer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/f99e3295-a07a-477a-8bd1-a22ae5e8f736%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/f99e3295-a07a-477a-8bd1-a22ae5e8f736%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAGPV1ur7pieppVzCDk6Wj%2Bnd0DKmPeY2j6fNgMwSeAKx_z47yQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAGPV1ur7pieppVzCDk6Wj%2Bnd0DKmPeY2j6fNgMwSeAKx_z47yQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAFY5kube-9xoHQAe94iYuyQbwMKO-H%3DTpxn4r0uWZaVGfUUZig%40mail.gmail.com.
