[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH 1/5] Rename plugin/ directory to oldplugin/

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:05:29PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:37:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Rename plugin/ directory to oldplugin/
> >  - Also fix .hgignore to ignore generated files in oldplugin directory.
> 
> I don't like this - I don't see why we can't just keep both plugins
> available in one directory. Just give them different names. eg call
> the new one  virt-viewer-command-plugin.so and have the source for
> both in the plugins/ directory. In the binary build, we can have
> a separate sub-RPM for each plugin, so the user can choose which
> they prefer to use.

I think I felt we should deprecate the old plugin.  Keep it around for
a while just in case anyone can make it work, otherwise delete it.
What do you think?

Rich.

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