[MTOS-dev] Proposal: Lose the "extras" dir

[Mark Carey]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Su <hamletcomplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember running across something to the effect that more effort would be
> put into making sure that the extras plugins /are/ functional in the future,
> but if so, then why would they not be placed in the regular plugin dir? They
> just seem kind of like afterthoughts here.

A related proposal is this:

MTOS should have a means to ship "included" plugins in a disabled
state.  In other words, plugins that live in the /plugins/ directory
but are disabled by default, until explicitly enabled by the user.

This doesn't solve the issue of having extra files in the download
distributions, but it could save resources by not loading potentially
"unnecessary" plugins, yet making it *very* easy to enable them,
without needing to seek them out, download/upload, etc.

I suppose a dead-simple version of Plugin Manager that "just works" on
all systems (without needing additional perl modules, etc.) would be
enough, but I don't think we are there yet.  Barring that, being able
to bundle plugins in a disabled (default) state would be nice.

-Mark