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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:03:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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?

I'm not so sure - I can see both plugins being potentially desirable.
All existing VNC plugins for example, use the fully embedded style
so they may be people who prefer that approach, even though for oVirt
we'd like to go the standalone approach.

Daniel
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