On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 23:26 +0100, Vasco Steinmetz wrote:
> >
>
> Still fails to compile.
> Obviously it still calls opensync_version() from synce-install-plugins.py.
> I guess the small change you made removed the plugin detection and copy part.
>
> Lines 5-10 seem superfluous now.
>
Yes. They will probably need restructuring in some way but without
research I am not sure how setuptools needs to handle this.
Basically what should happen now is as follows (if you can make this
happen setuptools-friendly it would be a great help :)
In the sync-engine sources, the two plugins now reside in
sync-engine/plugins and both should be copied to the target system on
install - but held with the package and not deposited in the user's
OpenSync plugin directory (If we do this, we run the risk of losing the
plugin should the user destroy the OpenSync install for whatever reason,
and we also need OpenSync to be installed before the sync-engine).
Now, when the user has installed Opensync, we need to run
synce-install-plugins.py in order to copy the appropriate plugin to the
OpenSync plugin directory. Note this is a copy, not a move (as Jonny
Lamb originally suggested). This way a working copy of the plugin is
placed in the OpenSync plugins directory, but we retain a copy of all
plugins with the sync-engine install. We can run
synce-install-plugins.py automatically on the install of sync-engine if
we detect that OpenSync is already installed - but we should not make
OpenSync a dependency of sync-engine (we may support targets other than
OpenSync one day)
Should the user then either hose their OpenSync install, or choose to
upgrade it, no plugins are lost and they do not need to reinstall
sync-engine. All they need to do is re-run synce-install-plugins.py, and
the correct plugin will be (re)inserted.
Hope this makes sense - please ask if you need clarification.
John.
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